Norman Ornstein Quotes
Having a lot of time left as president is a good thing for him, because it gives him the opportunities and time to get out of some of these holes.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
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Hospitals should be paid to keep patients out of the hospital, not for signing up more and more patients.
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How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.
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For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.
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Having a lot of time left as president is a good thing for him, because it gives him the opportunities and time to get out of some of these holes.
