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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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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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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My go-to meal is soft-boiled eggs with toasty squares.
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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
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Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.
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Hillary Clinton has not done an interview with me during the campaign season. I spoke to her years ago but not this season...so I don't want to misspeak.
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We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
