Jonathan Turley Quotes
In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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A film can reach only the places which the distributor has promised you. Several films are not released internationally, and Web has that wide reach.
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In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.
