Jim DeMint Quotes
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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Oh, her heart’s adrift with oneOn an endless voyage gone! Night and morningHannah’s at the window binding shoes.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
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Systems run the business and people run the systems.
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Ideas are more powerful than people.
