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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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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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 have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolised by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarisation.
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I lie, I cheat, and I steal.
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You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times.
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This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.
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It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.
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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.
