Eliot Engel Quotes
The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?
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You know what we should have done? Take Greg Skiing.
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To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.
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A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
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The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.
