Mark Udall Quotes
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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I have a very short attention span.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.
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And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
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The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'
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The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
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It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.
