Tom Vilsack Quotes
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
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Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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The more a person perceives that he is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
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You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.
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One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.
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The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
