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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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 have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.
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Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
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Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.
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If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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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.