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 couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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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I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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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.
