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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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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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 was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.
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Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
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I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.
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A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
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Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.
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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
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The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
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I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.
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There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
