Joe Manchin Quotes
A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
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I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.
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If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
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I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.
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A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
