Kent Conrad Quotes
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy. If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.
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Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
