George Deukmejian Quotes
There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.

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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.
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I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.
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You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.
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There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.