Ted Kulongoski Quotes
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
