Tom Harkin Quotes
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
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Innovation is hard to schedule.
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Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.
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I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.
