Roy Blunt Quotes

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Roy Blunt

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We were doing mobile games before the iPhone. We were doing free-to-play with 'Quake Live.' We wanted to do massively multiplayer stuff in the early days but didn't have the resources to do it.

John Carmack

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A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

John Niven

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I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

Trevor Dunn

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'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn't that be entertaining?

Rodney Crowell

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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

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In order to encourage private investors to pursue long-term, responsible projects, governments need to promote consistent policies and frameworks.

Jose Angel Gurria

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When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work.

Courtney B. Vance

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I think it's important to never play 'crazy' - you have to know what kind of crazy you're playing.

Claire Danes

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I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

Bob Seger

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No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

Brigitte Bardot

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I never set out to build some behemoth comedy career. My taste in movies is far more eclectic than that so my aspirations as a filmmaker are far more eclectic than that.

Shawn Levy

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There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

Thomas Frank

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