Jim DeMint Quotes
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.
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In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.
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Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
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I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
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If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
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The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
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Power to vary in plants or animals is itself a feature as readily transmissible as is stability of character. The quality of varying to meet varying environments is therefore one of the hereditary traits which the plant breeder must consider, and which may itself be extended or overcome by the processes of crossing and selection.
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Memory is so subjective. We all remember in a visceral, emotional way, and so even if we agree on the facts-what was said, what happened where and when-what we take away and store from a moment, what we feel about it, can vary radically.
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For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.
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My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.
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My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes.
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I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.
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Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.
