John Cornyn Quotes
Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.
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The great thing about being on a series for nine years is you get to see the characters grow and change.
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From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.
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To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.
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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
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Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.
