John Boehner Quotes
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.
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My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
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All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
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Many people persist in the wrong job, trying year after year to get good at what they're bad at or at what they dislike. Like marrying the wrong person, working in the wrong job is a prescription for a life of toil-and-groan.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.
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Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.
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I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
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Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
