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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You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.
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Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
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Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.
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There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
