John Dingell Quotes
Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.
Quotes to Explore
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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We care about margins.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it.
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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.
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'My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.' -Chris Colfer on his characters
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We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.
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There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
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Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.
