John Hoeven Quotes
The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.
Quotes to Explore
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
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This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
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It's crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can't my doctor say, 'Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you're five years from being diabetic.' But I can go to Target, and they know exactly what I'm going to buy.
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The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.
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The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.
