Joe Barton Quotes
I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.

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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.
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I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?
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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
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You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
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I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.