Mike Lee Quotes
The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.
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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
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Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.
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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.
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In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, 'This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.'
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I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
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I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it.
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No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
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Money is just the poor man's credit card.
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You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.
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Creation was not finished at the dawn of this earth, but creation continues, and we have a lot to do to make the world a better place.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
