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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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 go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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It is ridiculous to think of the creation of the world as occurring on a certain date—say, in the autumn of 4004 B.C.E.! It is equally ridiculous to describe a creator as a vengeful, adoration-hungry patriarch who lives in the clouds and whose scowling, bearded face is guaranteed to frighten children and intimidate the pious. And indeed, it is just as ridiculous to go to the other extreme and postulate a quantum creator-god who is discernible only as a sort of fuzzy cosmic hologram of all there is.
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Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?
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It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.
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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.
