Mike Rogers Quotes
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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I love Steve Carell.
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I loved to fall down.
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I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.
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You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.
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I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff.
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K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.
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Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
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When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
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During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just kept moving toward that horizon.
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Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
