Linda Chavez Quotes
If I am confirmed as secretary of labor, I intend to keep faith with the men and the women who still work at jobs like those my parents held.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.
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God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.
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Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
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Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty
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If I am confirmed as secretary of labor, I intend to keep faith with the men and the women who still work at jobs like those my parents held.
