Ernie Fletcher Quotes
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
Quotes to Explore
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
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When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
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What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
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State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
