Rob Portman Quotes

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

Rob Portman

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GovernmentSocietyAmericanPush

I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.

Jenny Slate

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My work shows how important it is that independent researchers should have access to data so that government statistics can be checked and so that the democratic debate within India can be informed by the different interpretations of different scholars.

Angus Deaton

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I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

Tracey Emin

BetterYouOutHereThan

Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to build up the American military power to assure our national security against any conceivable threat.

Robert Dallek

PowerIdeasCommunismThinkAmerican

I had this all-American cheerleader girl, in Georgia or somewhere, coming up to me and asking for guest list at a show. I never thought our music would reach out to such a broad variety of people like that.

Romy Madley Croft

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The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

Miuccia Prada

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People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

Lucy Powell

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I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

Loudon Wainwright III

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Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

Joseph Murray

ServiceSocietyLivingRentPay

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

Bonnie Raitt

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I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

Bob Costas

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Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

Ansel Elgort

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