Jeff Merkley Quotes
There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
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Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
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Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
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I remember going down the tunnel into the Olympic Stadium and getting a glimpse of all the people and hearing all the noise, all the people shouting for us. I'd seen Usain Bolt on the warm-up track, and then, as I walked into the stadium, I sort of realised how big it was!
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
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It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.
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I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.
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I have the most amazing support network around me.
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
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Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.
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There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
