Joe Bob Briggs Quotes
'I think we should take money from everyone,' I told her, 'regardless of their ability to pay. After all, this is America.'
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
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'I think we should take money from everyone,' I told her, 'regardless of their ability to pay. After all, this is America.'
