Jon Oringer Quotes
I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
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Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
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So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
