Jeb Hensarling Quotes
In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
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I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
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People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
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Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
