Eddie Mair Quotes
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.
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It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
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You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.
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Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, 'Let's hope for the best.' I always made these year-end videos with 100 things I did, and it would kind of build itself up throughout the year. When this year started, it was like I knew the 100 things before I even got to do them.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.
