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Charles Boustany Quotes

The tax code's complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce.

Charles Boustany

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1956

Topics

Short Army Country Tax Nothing Code

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Jim Broadbent

Character End Hollywood Clean Up

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

Robert J. Fisher

Work School Write Hard Well English

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

Stevie Nicks

Focus Parenting Wife Meetings You

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

Michelle Rodriguez

Secrets Just Because Know Say Old

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Luke Pasqualino

Good People Saying Think You Nice

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.

Joshua Chamberlain

Bridge Writing Place New Defend Up

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

Joshua Ferris

Time Book Expectations Someone You

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'

Josh Dun

Cool Small Face Doing You Know

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.

Diablo Cody

People Interesting Doing Divorce You

When I talk about 'working class,' I don't talk about 'white working class,'. I talk about 'working class,' and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.

Tim Ryan

Good Job People Color Black You

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Norman Foster

Habit Unexpected Find Things Like

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

Richard Thompson

Good Look Way Try Regardless