Tom Vilsack Quotes
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
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My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.
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I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.
