Joe Lieberman Quotes
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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I will be very involved in Ukraine.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.
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It's not in their interest to continue this standoff. They have nothing to gain.
