Tom Harkin Quotes
I think the American people said, look, you know, we can't control what every government does to its people, but we shouldn't be aiding and assisting a government in having these kinds of repressive prisons. It added to the public outcry against our involvement in Vietnam.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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I want to have a normal high-school experience.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
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To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
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It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.
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As we all know, sequels can be tricky.
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The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.
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I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me.
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Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
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I think the American people said, look, you know, we can't control what every government does to its people, but we shouldn't be aiding and assisting a government in having these kinds of repressive prisons. It added to the public outcry against our involvement in Vietnam.