Tom Vilsack Quotes
I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment rate in double digits. We had poverty rates soaring. We had kids who were food insecure. Today in 2016, we have a lot less unemployment, a lot less poverty, and a lot fewer kids who are food insecure.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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There are some days I feel fat. I'm not convinced there's going to be a moment where every woman in the world wakes up and feels like a million dollars. So, what I want to do is give women the tools that will help when those moments come up. Sometimes it can be as easy as telling yourself that you are beautiful.
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
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The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
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I am wrapped in dismal thinking.
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I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment rate in double digits. We had poverty rates soaring. We had kids who were food insecure. Today in 2016, we have a lot less unemployment, a lot less poverty, and a lot fewer kids who are food insecure.
