Joe Barton Quotes
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.
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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
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God shapes the world by prayer.
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Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite...to the attainment of the ends of such power.
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At best Americans give but limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.
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Wonders will never cease.
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There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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I feel a responsibility to try and give back. I see young people out there who are trained, and any way I can help them and give them an opportunity is gratifying.
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Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.
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How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.
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Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.
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I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.
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I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.
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CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.
