Peter DeFazio Quotes
There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
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People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
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The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.
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I am the boss of me. You can't change anyone else. Women think they can. But you know what? You can't.
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Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.
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There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
