Joni Ernst Quotes
When I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. Washington is full of big spenders. Let's make them squeal.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
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Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
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EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.1
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[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.
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It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.
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I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.
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When I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. Washington is full of big spenders. Let's make them squeal.
