Tom Vilsack Quotes
There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
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I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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I know about raising money.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
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Your whole perspective changes on what's possible. You can make dreams happen.
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The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.
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I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
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The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.
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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
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There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.
