Jason Chaffetz Quotes
I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
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My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.
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The investor world that looks at studios as part of media companies will say that the studio business is supposed to be erratic. Not at our company. Not at Time Warner.
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People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business.
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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
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I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.
