Ernest Istook Quotes

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

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• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Think
  • Intelligent
  • I Think

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Influence

• I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • Want
  • Young

• I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • People
  • Art
  • Write

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Woman
  • Movies
  • Find

• There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Stop
  • Police
  • Wishes

• If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Journey

• All love is unrequited. All of it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I got a granite chin.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Got
  • Chin
  • Granite

• I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Child

• I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • World
  • Why
  • Feeling

• With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

  

  Tana French
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Depend

• You don't even have to be able to talk. Just sing and get famous. 'Cause James Brown's been singin' 30 years. I don't know what the fuck James is talkin' about!

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Famous

• The positivity of the Obamas as a family is undeniable.

  

  James Corden
  • Family

• I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Forgive

• I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

  

  Brad Pitt
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • History
  • True
  • Law

• English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • Reading
  • English
  • Language