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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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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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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I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.
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You'd be surprised how many records we've had to sell to pay our debts.
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I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
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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.