Byron Dorgan Quotes
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
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It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.
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Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.
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People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
