John Fleming Quotes
If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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Accept loss forever.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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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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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources.
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There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
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The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.
