Jim Nussle Quotes
Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.
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Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
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When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.
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Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
