#nate

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#also #buy #country #does #faith

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#ball #decided #did #eye #finishing

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#approach #eliminate #else #every #feel

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#character #character actor #fortunately #get #hard

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fortune #given #good #good fortune #great

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#been #constitution #current #haven #members

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#authority #bench #comes #congress #consent

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#born #i #known #leader #majority

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#any #appoint #consent #constitution #does

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#director #entrepreneur #expensive #extinct #fascinates