Jon Huntsman, Jr. Quotes

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Maya Lin

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My first expedition was at about the age of eight.

Ann Bancroft

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It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan.

Rupert Friend

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It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.

Matt Bomer

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On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

Martin Scorsese

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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Jay-Z

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We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

Joseph Epstein

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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

Djuna Barnes

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Social Security is the most important social program in America.

Dick Durbin

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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Plutarch

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I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

Shannen Doherty

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