Jim DeMint Quotes
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Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.
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I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.
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Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
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I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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Music was my passion, and I started out as a singer. It's just natural to me to keep pursuing my music career.
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Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…
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Wanting money has been made so taboo. We're not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we use it every single minute of our lives.
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Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
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Some people think that the people they lead are too stupid to be told the truth, and thus they must be lied to, in order for a greater good to be accomplished. Some people believe in the system that has been set up, where the strongest among us is going to lead us in a fight, otherwise everyone is the same. That's the doctrine of pirates.
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I don't think Obama will get re-elected.
