John Shimkus Quotes
Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.
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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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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
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Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
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I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.
