Ernest Istook Quotes
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Fashion is one big family.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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Every child has a right to learn in an environment that is safe.
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I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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People expect to see white guys, Sunday afternoon, on 'Face the Nation.' And people with a direct interest in politics do watch those shows. But not a lot of normal people watch those shows. But, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' it's unbelievable how many people watch that.
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We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
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It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
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America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
