Michael Rispoli Quotes
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
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Als auf die große Masse des Menschengeschlechts berechnet und derselben angemessen, kann bloß allegorische Wahrheit enthalten, welche sie jedoch als sensu proprio wahr geltend zu machen hat.
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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
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I get referred to as the social media kid on set, but I don't let it bother me. I try not to.
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I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
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It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, 'Just let me do what I do.'
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When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.
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I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
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We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hear, too small to see, but heavy with mood and meaning. Imagine being aware of all these airy inclusions - and you can begin to understand how it might feel to be able to smell really well.
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I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.
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I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.
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If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.
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Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.
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God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.
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'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
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The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.
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The Internet really offered a space for me to thrive.
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We're dream chasers. Nobody owes us our dream. But we have to chase it.
