John Connally Quotes
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But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
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For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
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I'm basically nocturnal.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
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The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
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A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
