Jon Ossoff Quotes
One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.
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'You're a gentleman,' they used to say to him. 'You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman.'
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And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.
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As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'
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I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
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One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.
