Joe Barton Quotes
I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
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I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
