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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I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.
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Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.
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King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
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Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
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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.
