Jim DeMint Quotes
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
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Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.
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You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
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I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
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I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.
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I think 'cool' is overrated.
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I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.
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A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
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If something's not mean't for you, you won't get it, simple as that.
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I like the idea of collaboration. I wanted to shine a light on the importance of collaborating with producers.
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
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I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.
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It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
