John Thune Quotes

Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.

John Thune

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People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Jim Carrey

PeopleThinkMotivationLearnNeed

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

Stephen Rea

MotherTechnologySonAmbitionYou

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.

Tommy Hilfiger

BestMeLongDifficultSearching

Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.

Tony Evans

LoveFaithCompassionSpiritualRun

What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.

Rodman Philbrick

MeTragedyCircumstancesTerrible

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

Jojo Moyes

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My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

Derek Jacobi

WindBookDownHandTopBackwards

If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

Christie Hefner

LearningYouFindProfessionalStop

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Bruno Senna

GoodFreedomPastRacingYouDone

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

Anne Tyler

WritingNeverWriteLikeFeltTill

For so long, I have been an outsider because of my size. And I think that fashion has always, in some way, catered to celebrities or to a thinner idealistic model.

Ashley Graham

FashionThinkLongWayAlwaysSize

Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

Peter Welch

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