Jim Clyburn Quotes
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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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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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
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I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.
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In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
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The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
