Judd Gregg Quotes
Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.
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I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
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If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you wouldn't want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well.
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I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
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In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they're not ashamed - it's for their healing. That's kind of just what I strive for, that feeling.
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Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.
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I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.
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I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.
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President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.
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Women are still second-class citizens.
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I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.
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The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
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Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
