Ernest Istook Quotes
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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After Notre Dame, what is there?
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I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.
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What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
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I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
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When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
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Patience is passion tamed.
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If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
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I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.
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Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
