Carl Albert Quotes
I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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The basic problem is for a congressman or a president to get elected, they need obscene amounts of money. And the only place you can get obscene amounts of money is from Wall Street and the big corporations who benefit from shipping our jobs and our factories overseas - that's the fundamental political problem.
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It's important to know, whether you're pro or anti the current president and what he's doing, that he's doing what he thinks is for the betterment of the country because his interest is to make this country a better place.
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If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
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I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.
