John Dingell Quotes
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
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Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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I was really gobsmacked.
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
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In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Yet it is incumbent on those in high places to make wise decisions and it is reasonable and important that the public be correctly informed. It is consequently incumbent on all of us to state the facts as forthrightly as possible.
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My body and my will are one.
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One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.
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My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.
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To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.
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Fashion is for women without style.
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I'm an optimistic person.
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The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.
