Tom Vilsack Quotes
During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
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A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
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I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture to just try to find the tone for the movie or the TV show.
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I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
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My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
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During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.
