Charlie McCreevy Quotes
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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I think that we will have to initiate measures against Spain."
