Jeff Merkley Quotes
Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.
Jeff Merkley
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
Vincent Cassel
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
Laura Mvula
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. Watts
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
Tate Donovan
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
Malaika Arora Khan
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
T. J. Miller
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
Dalton Trumbo
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
Yael Stone
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
Nate Corddry
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
Omari Hardwick
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
Zoe Lofgren
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
Hansie Cronje
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I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.
Jo Brand
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When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
Curtis Hanson
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The only club that could lure me away from Dortmund is Real Madrid.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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Seeing your music, how it actually affects people, it just encourages me to stay true to myself and write stories that I relate to and that are real to me, an experience that I've had.
Chord Overstreet
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I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
Jefferson Mays
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Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.
Jeff Merkley
