Jeh Johnson Quotes
The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.
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Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
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I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
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As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman.
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Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
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I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'
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The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.
