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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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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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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I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
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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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Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.
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I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
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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.
