Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
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One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
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Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.
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Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.
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In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources.
