Suzan DelBene (Suzan Kay Oliver DelBene) Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.
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When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior.
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We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.
