John Cornyn Quotes
The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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Sometimes you have to stand alone for a moment to remember who always stands beside you.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.