Mark Pocan Quotes
I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of climate change before they get even worse.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
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I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of climate change before they get even worse.
