John Conyers Quotes
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.
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When you're shy, the worst thing you can do is go into all these casting rooms and be scrutinized. But with shyness, I think you just have to bite the bullet.
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All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.
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America can't beat anyone anymore.
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In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
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Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.