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Thom Tillis Quotes

When I was speaker in North Carolina, the state was gripped with a deficit, and we made a fundamental policy decision to adopt austerity budgets for four years.

Thom Tillis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 30, 1960

Topics

Decision Years Policy Four Made

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

Robert Hunter

Song Feel Doing Will Line Emotional

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.

Angela Duckworth

Work Science Day Parents Me Grit

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

John Podhoretz

Leadership World Choices America Him

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!

Stormzy

Music School Me Career Choice Study

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

Tony Campolo

Internet Way Spread Lies Effects

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

Tony Kushner

Love Great Writing Reading Way

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

Mary-Louise Parker

Work Time Child Small Want Him

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

Jay Leno

Mother Famous You Heard Until

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

Don Rickles

Situation I Can Joke Tell Cannot

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

Dolly Parton

Good Age Hope People Saying Looks

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

Drew Carey

Change Change The World People World

I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

Serena Williams

Life Fighter Always Through Things