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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I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.
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At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.
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Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.
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Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
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Cooking's my hobby.
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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.