Jon Kyl Quotes
Saying 'no' to very bad legislation is not wrong. In fact, when the American people tell you that they don't want the health care bill, you've got a responsibility to say no.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, 'Oh yes, you're so right,' but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
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I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
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Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream.
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My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.
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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
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We children learned responsibility automatically.
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Saying 'no' to very bad legislation is not wrong. In fact, when the American people tell you that they don't want the health care bill, you've got a responsibility to say no.
