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This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

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• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Me
  • Hate

• Get my velocity back up -- it was down a little.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Up
  • Velocity

• Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Punishment

• And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Frank Lloyd Wright

• Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Intuition

• Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

  

  M. L. Stedman

• The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Home
  • She
  • Business

• Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Moments

• A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Never
  • Forgiveness
  • Hurts

• In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Lose
  • Measures
  • Tactics

• Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Worry
  • Cold
  • Emotions

• Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Television
  • Drug
  • Excellence

• I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Speak

• This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

  

  Virginia Foxx
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