Patrick McHenry Quotes
It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.
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I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
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I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
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If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.
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Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
