Joni Ernst Quotes
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.
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I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.
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My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
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Idiocy: crudeness’ intellectual equivalent.
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With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
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In truth, elite education has become a cattle brand. It signifies lots of things other than knowledge: for some, politically correct certification; for others, good test scores and grades that got them in; for a few, later entry into the alumni ranks of high business, law, academia, government, and the media.
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Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
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In education, parody is obsolete.
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There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.
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We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.
