Tom Vilsack Quotes

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Tom Vilsack

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.

  

  Flume
  • Years
  • Back
  • Favourite

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Imagination

• I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Day

• I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Respect

• Sneakers are not my thing.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Thing
  • Sneakers

• The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • You
  • Religion
  • Living

• Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Glamour
  • Remaining

• The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • People
  • History
  • Learning

• Frisch (1927) as quoted in Divisia 1953, pp.24-25; Cited in: Bjerkholt, Olav. 'Ragnar Frisch and the foundation of the Econometric Society and Econometrica.' ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY MONOGRAPHS 31 (1998): 26-57.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Society

• There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • God

• I can make it through the rain,I can stand up once again,on my own, and I know,that I’m strong enough to mend,and every time I feel afraidI hold tighter to my faith,and I live one more dayand I make it through the rain.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Today
  • Taken

• I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sister
  • Twins
  • Recollect

• He has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave properly, like a holy man!

  

  Desmond Tutu

• In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Today
  • Past
  • Income