John Otto Quotes
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
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If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
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Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
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I was a street dancer.
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…the simple-minded positivism that believes it has found a firm ground of certainty if it only excludes all mental phenomena from consideration and holds fast to observable facts.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.
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The meetings yesterday proved that we really do have a partnership, which is growing both wider and deeper, ... We do also have some differences. But there is a lot more that unites us than divides us.
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Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
