Tom Vilsack Quotes
I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
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I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.
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The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.
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Great businessmen are creators.
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Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.
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I think so much in time. I always have. Even at 20, I thought in terms of time, that I don't have a lot of time left. And I want to do so many things.
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If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!
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The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
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I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.
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I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.
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Style equals pretense.
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Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.
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When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is.
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I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.
