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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I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.
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You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.
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I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.
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My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into.
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Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents.
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Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.
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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.
