Jason Chaffetz Quotes

Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

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• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Meaning

• There is something about poverty that smells like death.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Death
  • Like
  • Poverty

• Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.

  

  Victor Oladipo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • You
  • Energy
  • Urban

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Feel
  • Matter

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

• When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Street

• I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Choices
  • Tears
  • Product

• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Very

• I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Forever

• I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Future
  • Always
  • Emotions

• I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Tragedy
  • Delightful

• I will never censor myself to please anyone.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Will

• Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Mom

• You don't make any money sitting in traffic.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Money
  • You
  • Traffic

• I can apply myself to the format of 'SNL,' I can apply myself to the format of 'Conan,' but at the same time, I'm still being J. B. Smoove. I'm not changing up my style, I'm not changing up how I think, what's funny to me, my delivery, the way I carry myself.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • Time
  • Funny

• Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • Work
  • Great
  • Real

• Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • Work
  • Men
  • Law

• I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Way
  • Understanding

• Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

  

  Jason Chaffetz