Chuck Grassley Quotes
We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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I'm a real romantic.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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Ultimately, my belief is that the best marketing is creating a product that people are excited to talk about. Period.
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We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.
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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
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Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
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As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn't think it was possible.
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I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.
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I have reached the conclusion that Hawaii does not need LNG in our future.
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?
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There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
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In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
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A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
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Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
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We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.
