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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.
Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.
I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.
If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent
If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.
Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.
We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.
Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.
No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?