Marsha Blackburn Quotes
Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not out of a crystal stem.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
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You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
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An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.
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Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not out of a crystal stem.
