Marsha Blackburn Quotes
Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail. Then they get caught in a tree; you climb up and bring them down, and untangle the string; you run to get them aloft again. Finally, the kite is airborne, and it flies higher and higher, as you let out more string, until it's so high in the sky, it looks like a bird. And if the string snaps, and you've done your job right, the kite will continue to soar in the wind, all by itself.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
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Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.
