Roy Blunt Quotes

More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today.

Roy Blunt

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Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.

Jincy Willett

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When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

Joan Jett

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Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

John Paul Jones

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When you start forcing things, that's when you get hurt.

John John Florence

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I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Sidney Sheldon

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There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

Luke Evans

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Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Jose Andres

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Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

Deirdre O'Kane

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One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

Chris Christie

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The first time that I met B.I.G. was in 1994, summer of '94 - I believe it was August. I think it was right after 'Ready to Die' came out.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

Craig Kilborn

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Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

Bonnie Hammer

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