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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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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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I have a hyper personality.
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I can never stop thanking God because my music influences people in their respective lives.
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'You know what is good about these Dixie Chicks burnings or bashings? It's a wonderful, wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet, they throw some things on the fire, they talk about Vin Diesel, they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is, they exchange phone numbers and in some cases has led to marriages.'
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Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
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People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
