Joni Ernst Quotes
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
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There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
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The political parties have lost their loyalties.
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I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.
