Jim DeMint Quotes
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
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Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.
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I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
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Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
