Mike Coffman Quotes

I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.

Mike Coffman

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• What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Funny
  • Responsible
  • Who Am I

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Year
  • Lived
  • Canada

• I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Done
  • Want
  • Man

• I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Me
  • Opinion

• The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.

  

  Samantha Power
  • System
  • Actions
  • Israel

• For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Future
  • Beautiful

• Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist

  

  Clifton Fadiman

• Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Past
  • Water
  • Wine

• I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Song

• 'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

  

  James Bobin
  • Game
  • Chess

• We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Different
  • Game
  • Mistake

• I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

  

  Matt Holliday
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's notebook - it clarifies what the film is: an unrealized sketch. A sketch can afford to allude to a point of view. Moviemakers need to show their point of view, something this shrug of a movie never gets around to doing.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Movie
  • Green

• The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

  Elliott Erwitt

• If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Up

• It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Environment

• There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Success
  • Marriage

• I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

  

  Jason Dohring
  • People
  • Long
  • Proud

• Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Important
  • History
  • Proud

• I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Important
  • Space
  • Cleaning

• Puerto Ricans, it doesn't matter where they live, it doesn't matter how long it's been since they visited the island, their hearts are there. If you keep them informed, and if you say to them, 'This is important for Puerto Rico, go and call your congressman,' they do it. They do it.

  

  Anibal Acevedo Vila
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Important
  • Democracy
  • Forces

• I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.

  

  Mike Coffman
  • Important
  • Marine
  • Affair