Gary Pruitt Quotes
It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
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Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.
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Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
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Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
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Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
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I also don't think all of the revenue will come from digital subscriptions. We have in the New York Times a mix of revenue sources and it will continue to be a mix for quite a while. What makes me more nervous is that we built this newsroom on a really high profit margin that has eroded significantly over the last years. I'm nervous that we won't continue to have the profit margins that allow us to have a big, robust newsroom.
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I would say I'm a goof ball, but not a comedian.
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I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.
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I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
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It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.
