Jim Sensenbrenner Quotes
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
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A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.
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My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
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I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.
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In Selma as elsewhere we seek and pray for peace. We seek order. We seek unity. But we will not accept the peace of stifled rights, or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest. For peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.
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If you're reading this...
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Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.
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The apocalypse is not around the corner.
