Marc Veasey Quotes
Sitting on the House Armed Services Committee is a great responsibility and an opportunity to represent not only the thousands of veterans in the 33rd Congressional District of Texas that I represent in Dallas-Fort Worth but also the active-duty men and women of our armed forces, national guard, and reserve components.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.
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Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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In the back of my head, I always thought it would be great to become an actress on a sitcom.
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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.
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I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.
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I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?
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Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.'
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Sitting on the House Armed Services Committee is a great responsibility and an opportunity to represent not only the thousands of veterans in the 33rd Congressional District of Texas that I represent in Dallas-Fort Worth but also the active-duty men and women of our armed forces, national guard, and reserve components.
