Mac Thornberry Quotes
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
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They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
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Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
