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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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.
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We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.
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We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
