Orrin Hatch Quotes
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I don't study; I create.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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I think there's something about going on a hike and looking at a city view or looking at the ocean that brings you back to earth and kind of reminds you that your problems are quite small in retrospect.
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I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.
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The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.
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No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
