Peter DeFazio Quotes

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

Peter DeFazio

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• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Child
  • Blessed

• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Long
  • Live
  • Anything Is Possible

• I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Life
  • Party
  • Building

• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfort

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • God
  • Money
  • Knows

• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Control
  • Player
  • Winning

• I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • I Can

• The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Fans

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friends

• Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Job
  • You
  • Control

• Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Life
  • Science
  • Aim

• I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • History
  • Myself
  • Journey

• I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Restaurant

• It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • American
  • Water
  • Golf

• I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

  

  Bubba Sparxxx
  • Life
  • Picture

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• The challenge is making sure that every single moment is honest, no matter what. It's doing Eric Carter justice. Not trying to fill Jack Bauer's shoes. Not trying to step into Kiefer's legacy.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Justice

• In relationships with a directors I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Money
  • Relationships
  • Directors

• Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

  

  Peter DeFazio
  • Money