Jim Nussle Quotes
Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
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As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.
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I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
