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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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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Running is my bedrock activity.
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I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
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When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.
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I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I'd been cut off from these experiences as a child.
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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.
