Jim Talent Quotes
We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.
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It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
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We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
