Joe Barton Quotes
Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.
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Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with Big Little Lies script. It just kind of flowed out.
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Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back
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I think there are barriers, but I think for me specifically, my barrier is being rejected from the kind of hip-hop elitists that think I'm not appropriating it, but just not serious about it. They think I'm a Lonely Island, Weird Al, you know - like a parody rapper. So that alienates me from a lot of things.
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Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.
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Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.
