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 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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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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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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Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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In any job, you can come under attack or have a door slammed in your face. You do want to listen to critics; you don't want to be in a cocoon and never change. Get a second opinion from coworkers and friends. Know that criticism can be valid, but don't take it personally.
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It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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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.
