Christine Gregoire Quotes
It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.
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It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
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I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.
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I'm a good eater and like to make my own meals. I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled.
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In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.
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We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
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You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
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I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
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Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
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For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.
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I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
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It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
