Jim Costa Quotes
In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
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My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like, 'How could you not know that?' But for the ones who didn't know, he was basically the only president they knew.
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In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
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In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.
