John Hoeven Quotes
The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Alternative medicine had begun its remarkable ascent in a general climate of unreason. Incrementally, over the past two decades, we have seen the emergence of a culture that is curiously indifferent to the concept of truth. There is not one truth now, but many—all of them interchangeable, all of them of equal weight, and all deserving of equal consideration. In this Wonderland of relative facts, parallel truths and intellectual legerdemain, basing an argument on flawed reasoning does not automatically disqualify or even devalue it. To the contrary: logical fallacies are tolerated—indeed, often celebrated—as manifestations of a much-needed diversity.
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I don't know what's going to happen in the future; I just know this: I'm going to continue to give my best effort to the game, stay prepared.
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I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.
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The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.
