Ken Calvert Quotes
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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I can always go back to education.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
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Everybody has problems.
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Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
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It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story for me. I didn't know how to process it until after I got on the show and realized what the purpose of it was.
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It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
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The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
