M. Stanton Evans Quotes
Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.
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I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, 'My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.' That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
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When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
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Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
