Rick Santelli Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.
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We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment but a way to act.
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Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.
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In labor and delivery, things can go really bad very quickly, sometimes in a case of seconds
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
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I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.
