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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One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
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I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.
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Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.
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Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.
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I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.
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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.
