Tom Vilsack Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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Glasgow is certainly a place where they will tell you if they don't think you are anything special.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
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I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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A library is all the university you will ever need.
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Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.
