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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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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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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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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I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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The turning point for me was realizing that I would learn more at Google, trying to build a company, regardless of whether we failed or succeeded, than I would at any of the other companies I had offers from.
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A man by himself is in bad company.
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One is a majority if he is right.
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I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom — because that's all dung to a soldier.
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
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The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.
