Tom Vilsack Quotes

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

Tom Vilsack

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Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.

Andy Andrews

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For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

Jean Stafford

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I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Michael Apted

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What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

Rudy Giuliani

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I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.

Michel Hazanavicius

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The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

Denis Leary

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I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

David Wenham

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I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

Bob Seger

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I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

Anne Wojcicki

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

Alicia Silverstone

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If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

William Wyler

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I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.

Punit Renjen

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