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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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.
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The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.
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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.
