Ernest Istook Quotes
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I don't really yell at people.
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What you see is what you get.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.
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Hollywood has got technology, method, and discipline.
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I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.
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The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.
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As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.
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The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
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I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.
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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
