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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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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Yes, it's still a man's world, unfortunately, and we have a long way to go in this country and all countries - but there's something to be said for just feeling the spirit of a true man, and I think that's what 'Classic Man' speaks to.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
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People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
