Jason Chaffetz Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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