John Barrasso Quotes
Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
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I definitely want to get more active in the film world. My experiences I've had thus far have been really fun, and I definitely feel my best is yet to come in that world.
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Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.
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For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
