Tom Vilsack Quotes
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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I like children - fried.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
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The American dream belongs to all of us.
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'Whatever situation you are facing, don’t let it overwhelm you. Stay focused because there is something far more important than that situation – your dream and your goals in life.'
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I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.
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In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.
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There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.
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I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
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There are children with dreams counting on us.
