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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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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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.
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I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What will come out of her mouth?' I create individuals so real to me, I sometimes start talking to them. Then I let them loose on the page.
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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.
