Tom Vilsack Quotes
My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

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Life in California is beautiful.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
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Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars
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Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
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When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.
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My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.