John Boehner Quotes
It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.
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I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people.
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The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it. I went back to school, and then I started writing nonfiction kind of by accident.
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
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As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
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It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president.
