Peter DeFazio Quotes

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

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• Being evil is easy.

  

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• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  

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• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

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• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

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• The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

  

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• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

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• Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.

  

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• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

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• You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

  

  Macy Gray
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• I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

  

  Hans Kung
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• Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

  

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• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

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• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

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• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
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• According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

  

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• I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

  

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• The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

  

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• I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.

  

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• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

  

  Peter DeFazio
  • America
  • Single