Jim Costa Quotes
As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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I often reread books I have written.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.
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I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.
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I think today we're setting a constitutional marker and also a constitutional check on presidential power because you can't allow the president to move forward with unfettered fashion.
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
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As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.
