Joe Donnelly Quotes
I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
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As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.
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The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.
