John Rampton Quotes
Even after creating a budget and being more money conscience, it's still easy to overspend during the holidays.

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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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Values are more important than money.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.
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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
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Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn’t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be running around in loin cloths shooting at things with their arrows.
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Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.
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I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
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Even after creating a budget and being more money conscience, it's still easy to overspend during the holidays.