Justin Amash Quotes
Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.
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Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
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When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
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Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.
