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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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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I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots, when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.
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One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
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Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.
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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had; it's a fresh start.
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I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.
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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.
