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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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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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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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
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I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.
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They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
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Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money and investment decisions away from proven moneymakers (read: job producers) to Washington amateurs. In both cases, American's lose.
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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.
