Jim Nussle Quotes

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

Jim Nussle

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Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

John McTiernan

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Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Tom Stoppard

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The American evangelical movement in Africa does valuable work in helping the poor.

Roger Ross Williams

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No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

Ronald Harwood

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I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.

Donny Osmond

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I did my first contest, and I got third, and my dad was, like, 'Wow, she has potential.' And I went back when I was 7, and I won. And my dad's like, 'All right,' and then he dropped everything.

Chloe Kim

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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Art Spiegelman

WorkTrustEnoughWorthYouMeasure

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

Allan McNish

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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

William S. Burroughs

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Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

Sydney Pollack

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My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Richard Lewis

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Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public confidence in and, hence, demand for paper money depends on the ultimate confidence - or lack thereof - of the public in the viability of the issuing government.

Murray Rothbard

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