Chris Van Hollen Quotes

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

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• America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
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• It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
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• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

  

  Karl Marx
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• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  

  Dan Lipinski
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• I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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• I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

  

  Tali Lennox
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• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

  

  Dana Hussein
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• Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• I really didn't say everything I said. ... Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

  

  Yogi Berra

• Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
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• I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
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