Joni Ernst Quotes
Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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The fans treated me royally.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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I started with the modeling.
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'We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.'
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The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.
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A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.
