Pete Visclosky Quotes
I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.
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Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
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No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes. "Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?
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I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport.
