Pat Toomey Quotes
I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
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Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
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People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.
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China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.
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Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
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I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.
