Joe Donnelly Quotes
Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
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It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
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Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
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Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
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A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
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You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.
