John Boehner Quotes
During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.
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The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
