Jim Ramstad Quotes
Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.
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I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.
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Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
