Tom Vilsack Quotes
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
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Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
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I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.
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Generalized statements … which instill nebulous fear without specific information are exactly in line with the goals of terrorism. 25.
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It does create an environment that makes it difficult to work in. Our effort has been to continually make recruitment of good qualified staff a priority.
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I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.
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I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.
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Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.
