Richard Mourdock Quotes
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
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As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
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The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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I started out as a Democrat.
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I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.
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I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
