John Thune Quotes

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.

John Thune

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• Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Blue
  • Economy
  • Economic

• People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!

  

  Kajol
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Road

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • War
  • Heroes
  • Soldiers

• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

  

  Jack Palance
  • Important
  • Live
  • Together

• 'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Song

• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Perspective

• There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Important
  • Beauty

• As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Dream

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Important
  • Children
  • You

• As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Child
  • Values

• I think it is very important to be a method actor.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Think
  • Very

• A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

  

  John Berger
  • Up
  • Important
  • Logic

• I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out of my writing. When I begin to work, it's like a soda bottle that's been jostled before it's opened. There's a lot of pent up energy in there. I have to let it out slowly, carefully, so that I can turn it into a written work.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • God
  • Country
  • May

• In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Help
  • Never

• Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.

  

  John Thune
  • Important
  • War
  • Energy