John Barrasso Quotes

The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.

John Barrasso

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• Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Couple
  • Stage
  • Ego

• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Mind
  • Language
  • Same

• I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Language
  • Meaningful
  • Sounds

• People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Doing

• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Politics
  • Modern
  • Fairness

• My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Positive
  • Conversation

• I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Death
  • Machinery
  • Shall

• A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Artist

• It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Parents
  • Desire

• There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Stop
  • Doubt
  • Results

• NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Military
  • Alliance

• It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Book
  • Hero

• Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

  

  Ian Bogost
  • People
  • Fun

• I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.

  

  Lennie James
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Boy

• Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Education

• Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • School

• The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.

  

  John Barrasso