Cliff Stearns Quotes

In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

Cliff Stearns

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• As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Person
  • Unique
  • Teen

• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Work
  • Need
  • Employees

• One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Done
  • Job
  • Advice

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
  • Meetings
  • Public Policy

• I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • High
  • Water
  • Like

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Why
  • Black

• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Community
  • End

• The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • War
  • Best
  • Communication

• I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Masculinity

• While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Women
  • Freedom

• Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Women
  • Day
  • Mountains

• Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Bible
  • Jew
  • Passage

• The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Country

• Evolution is the idea some people have to explain life without God.

  

  Ken Ham
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich. It was a small town, and so safe that we rarely locked our doors at night.

  

  Michelle Gagnon
  • Beautiful
  • Community
  • Moved

• The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

  

  John Bright
  • Men
  • House

• In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

  

  Cliff Stearns