Amy Klobuchar Quotes
When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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I dunno, there were always people believing in me, but you just gotta be confident in whatever you wanna do.
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In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
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The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.
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When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.
