Jack Kemp Quotes
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms and now there's this terrorism thing that everybody's focused on, which is really a boondoggle in my opinion. It's just an excuse to clamp down on people's free speech. And corporations intimidate people and everybody's gotten intimidated and that's really what it is, and they just keep going along. It's almost like - a little bit like that Charlie Chaplin movie, Modern Times, or 1984, Orwell
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...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.
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Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecisin tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemusinterdum, nilo quae sunt metuenda magis quamquae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntque futura.hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessestnon radii solis neque lucida tela dieidiscutiant sed naturae species ratioque.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
