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“Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.”

Littles States Facts Running Lost Bits President Republican Office Little Bit Election Ran Serving Senate Governors Citizenship Preparing Rating Pious Baloney

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.”

“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.”

Writing Lost Novel Childhood Illusion Expectations Titles Maturity Passages Thrill Clash Great Writers Motifs

Author:Andre Maurois

“Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.”

Trying Important Self Wisdom Lost Steps Buddhism Mindfulness Honestly Assessment Admitting Rationalize Self Assessment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.”

Has Beens Lost Awareness Buddhism Perception Continuity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.”

Ifs Mean Running Lost Health Buddhism Capable Tendencies Faster More Money Athletics Measuring Adept Lost You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.”

Writing Real Energy Lost Waste

Author:Larry Brooks

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.”

Writing Wells Games Lost Essence Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.”

Men Lost Strong Mass Weight Work Out Quitting Lifting I Quit X Men

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.”

People Feels Years Humans Lasts Spirit Lost Bits Opinion Periods Lows Champion Optimist Human Spirit

Author:Jude Law

“It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.”

Kind Hard Age Jobs Lost Figures Who You Are

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.”

People Way Children Lost Community Deals One Way Kitchen Rescue Shelter Lost Child

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.”

Knows Feels Years Two Bigs Passion Lost Hours Loses Car Add Stuck Lots Of Money Traffic My Passion Stuck In Traffic

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.”

Men World Inspirational Funny Lost Hours Records Ten Entertaining Cried Athletics World Records Bloopers Decathlon

Author:Daley Thompson

“Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.”

World Lost Leader Economy Institutions Divided Unstable Global Economy World Economy Lost Trust

Author:Don Tapscott

“I've quoted Lost in America several times.”

America Lost

Author:Robin Tunney

“It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.”

Lost Schedules Lost Myself

Author:Roger Meddows Taylor

“I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.”

Lost Phones Cells Cell Phone Laptops Forgetful

Author:Ryan Tedder

“Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.”

Lost Felt Bits Bus Touring

Author:Keith Urban

“More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.”

Men World War Belief Lost British Command Recognition War Of The Worlds World War I Beggar Second World War Bombers Servicemen

Author:Carol Vorderman

“I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Children Use Remember Lost Wish Terrible Lessons Punishment Absurd Instance My Children Be Kind Palms Sibling Tattooed

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.”

World Way Book Stories Lost Tvs Personality Right Way Enamored

Author:Mae Whitman

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

Ends Whole Character Feelings Reality Lost Stuff Loses Comedy Emotional Empty Connections Viewers Strain Bananas Emotional Connection Funny Stuff

Author:Mike White

“George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart.”

Firsts Heart Eye Lost Mets Kentucky

Author:Shailene Woodley

“FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.”

People Humans Shows Happens Lost Term Deals Effects Events Majors Mythology Sci Fi Ripple Ripple Effect

Author:Sonya Walger

“I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.”

People Ideas Happens Lost Fiction Draws Science Fiction Complicated No Idea Bionics

Author:Sonya Walger

“Lost' holds a very special place in people's hearts and I wouldn't presume to say that 'FlashForward' will replace 'Lost.' I think it provides a lot of the same adrenaline and fascination and entertainment. It will help ease the pain of losing 'Lost!' I think it will appeal to the very same audience.”

People Thinking Heart Helping Pain Lost Audience Special Losing Entertainment Appeals Ease Fascination Adrenaline Special Places

Author:Sonya Walger

“To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.”

People Knows Ideas Shows Happens Lost Watches Honest Dying Tvs Scene Shots Scripts Disappointment Being Honest No Idea Hawaii Fanatics

Author:Sonya Walger

“While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.”

War Law Lost Failing Standards Claims Responsible Structure Protection Command Fighter Conventions Uniforms Initials Taliban Obeying Pow

Author:John Yoo

“I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.”

Lost Causes Leader Paradise Theme Utopia Lost Cause

Author:Marguerite Young

“In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.”

People Way Years Country Enough Lasts Lost Four Heard Our Country Four Years Had Enough Drifting

Author:Ted Yoho

“Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.”

People Humans Shows Lost Human Beings

Author:Ryan Adams

“My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful.”

Knows Made Lasts Fighting Lost Parent Huge Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Woods Last Time Fists Divorced Stressful Mazes Ikea

Author:Jedediah Bila

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.”

Done Moments Political Lost Speak Teacher Society Limits Authority Educator Learners Lawlessness

Author:Paulo Freire

“Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.”

Country Care America Lost Pay Prove Argument Democrat Health Care Expensive Other Countries Disputes Private Health Insurance

Author:Thomas Frank

“I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.”

People Thinking Kind Different States Earth Dies Lost Hell Illness Mental Illness Psychological All Kinds Loved Ones Severe Bipolar Places You Go

Author:Al Franken

“You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.”

Knows Death Lost Dying Havens Hiding Divides

Author:Vance Havner

“It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.”

Men Lasts Time Jesus Names Lost Parent Loses Church Hardest Irony Ministry Christian Ministry

Author:Vance Havner

“I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.”

“It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.”

Christian Found Lost Christian Inspirational

Author:Vance Havner

“Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."”

Self Christian Winning Lost Christ Believer Christian Inspirational

Author:Vance Havner

“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.”

Humans Littles Soul Character Stories Young Girl Lost Felt Nice Losing Reflection Fats Ass Knees Never Ending Pretty Girl Never Ending Story

Author:Jess C Scott

“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”

Source: Killosophy

“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.”

Trying Past Remember Lost Ideals Stopping Refrain

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.”

People Looks Heart Government School Jobs Lost Left Demand Elsewhere Hawaii Good Job Unreasonable Good School Lost Heart

Author:Linda Lingle

“The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.”

Facts Lost Son My Son

Author:Lois Lowry

“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”

War Artist Individual Lost Modern Approach Definitions Acknowledgement Individual Life

Author:Maya Lin

“Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.”

Giving Jobs Lost Products Financial Credit Objectives Agency Accurate Rating Minnesotans

Author:Al Franken

“Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.”

Want Lost Style Picks Instruments

Author:Stacy London

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