Virginia Foxx Quotes
The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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There's just something awesome about going all-out for 20 seconds and then stopping and getting to guzzle Pedialyte.
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My film is not a movie; it’s not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
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If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
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We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.
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The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.
