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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The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
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I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
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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.
