Jack Kemp Quotes
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
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I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
