Jim DeMint Quotes
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.
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I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.
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He always violated your expectations. … He was a character.
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I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.
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Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
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I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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I haven't let anybody take me off my path or deter me in any way. It's about seeing an opportunity and taking it.
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Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.