John Dingell Quotes
If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I won't join another band again.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
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We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.
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If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.
