Joe Manchin Quotes
I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.
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I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
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You are like a hurricaneThere's calm in your eye.And I'm gettin' blown awayTo somewhere saferWhere the feeling stays.I want to love you butI'm getting blown away.
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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
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I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.
