Patrick McHenry Quotes
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
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Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
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I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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I've traveled around the world.
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
