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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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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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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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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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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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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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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Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ.
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It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.
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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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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.
