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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Themes around education and learning run through my work.
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At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at all, she had built an empire. Eleanor had it all. Her one weakness was the young man sleeping beside her.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.
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There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
