Dan Maffei Quotes

One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

Dan Maffei

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I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

Jesse Stone

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So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

Joel Hodgson

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Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.

Robert Reich

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I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

Simon Hoggart

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The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

Simon Schama

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They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.

Tracy Morgan

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When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

Mike Lee

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Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Michelle Williams

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Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life.

Mollie King

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I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

Jean Craighead George

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It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

Jonathan Ive

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I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

Chris Daughtry

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