Charles Boustany Quotes
The incredible resiliency and spirit of the people of Louisiana is inspiring, to say the least.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.
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I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.
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The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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The incredible resiliency and spirit of the people of Louisiana is inspiring, to say the least.
