Ernest Istook Quotes
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.
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Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?
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I would support requiring an eligibility certificate for long-gun purchases because a permit gives the impression that someone could carry it loaded outside the home. That's not what we want to do.
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
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I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
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I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.
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How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?
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Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
