Raul Grijalva Quotes
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
Quotes to Explore
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.
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My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.
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When you speak the truth, people realize that.
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One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
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I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
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No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.
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My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
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The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
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I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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“Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.”
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While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
