Joni Ernst Quotes
As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
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All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.
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As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
