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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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
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If you feel comfortable in what you're wearing, you'll look your best, and I think that's a really important idea. Sometimes, whether it's fashion or beauty, things are on-trend, and they look beautiful on the runway, but when I apply them to myself, it doesn't look the way it should.
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.
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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.
