Tom Vilsack Quotes
More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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I want to be a major force.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.
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There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
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You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
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I think it's unfair to commit to a girl and not be able to give her the time she deserves.
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It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
