Barry Hughart Quotes
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.
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Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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Whate'erI may have been, or am, doth rest betweenHeaven and myself; I shall not choose a mortalTo be my mediator.
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In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.
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The subject may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it possesses some interest; and the maxim 'de minimis lex non curat,' does not apply to science.
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You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
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I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.
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I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
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A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.
