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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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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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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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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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
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I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then come to a close. I usually feel that there are no superfluous extras, but probably most composers feel that way about their works.
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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.
