Joni Ernst Quotes
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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I no longer limit myself.
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Music is about the performance.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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A lot of people are scared to come visit my hometown, but to me, violence is everywhere, man.
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It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.
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The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.
