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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I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.
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I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
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William Eggleston sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.
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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.
