John Conyers Quotes
Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
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Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.
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When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
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View health as an investment, not an expense.
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Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
