Marsha Blackburn Quotes
The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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We always trend set.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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I really like Rag & Bone because they make simple pieces that last.
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The local news does a story about it and everyone goes “Neat!” and then tomorrow we forget about it in favor of some other ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND REMARKABLE THING.
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
