Jim DeMint Quotes
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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They were afraid if the children were not very obedient they would get in trouble with white people for being uppity or being too agressive. So they were very, very strict. I would say today that we don't need to beat our children.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
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Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
