John Cornyn Quotes

Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.

John Cornyn

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To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

Jimmy Iovine

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It takes two hands to clap.

Jiang Zemin

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For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'

Jenny Lewis

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I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

Matthew Pearl

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We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

Maurice Allais

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I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

Aneurin Barnard

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The only two things that ever came naturally to me are music and investing.

Troy Carter

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You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

Shuji Nakamura

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Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Tony McCoy

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The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

Roy Haynes

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You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.

Michael Moore

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I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.

Jon Favreau

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