John Linder Quotes
If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.
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We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.
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If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.
