Tom Tancredo Quotes

Americans like optimists and shun 'doomsayers.'

Tom Tancredo

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LikeShunOptimists

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

Jesse Schell

DayGamesStartingOurEveryCreep

I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.

Andrew Young

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If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

Matt Taibbi

DayOpportunitiesGrowFatHouseGo

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

Angela Duckworth

CharacterIntelligenceEmpathyThink

If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.

Andy Samberg

PennyYouLookStrangersStreet

I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'

Trieste Kelly Dunn

SmileFreedomPressureBudgetYou

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

Travis Fimmel

CarWalkHouseBuildFixGuy

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Joseph de Maistre

ManFreeWickedGeneralHimselfToo

It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.

Derek Cianfrance

LifeBeautifulGreatToughMoments

I'm not going to go out there and have these slugfests, but I'll go out there and dominate my opponent. That's what I do in my fight.

Demetrious Johnson

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He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Clifton Fadiman

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If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.

Bobby Knight

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