Jim Flaherty Quotes
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
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I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
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I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.
