Kevin Brady Quotes
As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - the chief tax-writing body in Congress - I understand that true comprehensive tax reform is tremendously difficult.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
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When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.
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I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
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As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - the chief tax-writing body in Congress - I understand that true comprehensive tax reform is tremendously difficult.
