Dan Quayle Quotes
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
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Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.
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Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.
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Pressure is part and parcel of our career.
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If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
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'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.
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There is no time like the pleasant.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
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The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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When your parents gave you life, there wasn’t a trace of selfish desire, bad habits or self-centerednesss. But from the age of four or five you picked up the mean things, you saw other people do and the bad things you heard them say, so that gradually as you matured, growing up badly, you developed selfish desire, which in turn produced self-centeredness. Deluded by this self-centeredness, you then proceeded to create every sort of evil. If it weren’t for being centered on yourself, delusions would not arise. When delusions do not arise, that is none other than abiding in the Unborn Buddha Mind…
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Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.
