Jon Kyl Quotes
Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
Quotes to Explore
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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If we want to transform reality, we begin with ourselves. We do not ask the world to change, and we do not fight against society. It has to be us ourselves who affirm our own values.
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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.
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I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
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I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
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If you have John Goodman in your movie, you want to use him as much as possible.
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It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
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Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.
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I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I'm not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain't sharing.
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
