Steve McQueen (Terence Steven McQueen) Quotes
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.
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If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
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We had a great preseason. The guys responded with what coach George Karl wanted early on in pace of the game, togetherness and defensive intensity. We've improved in those areas with a couple of setbacks, but we've improved each game.
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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
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Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.
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Keep it simple, so you'll keep doing it.
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I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.
