Earl Blumenauer Quotes

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

Earl Blumenauer

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When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.

Joanna Coles

PositiveCommunicationSomeoneYou

Neither my MFA from Yale School of Drama nor my BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University make me any different from other actors in film, television, or theatre.

Amanda Warren

SchoolNew YorkMeTheatreDrama

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head.

Steven Pinker

BabyOrganizationThinkConnections

In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE.

Rob Van Dam

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If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

Ritchie Blackmore

YouPlayStageWellStudio

We are always focused on how can we differentiate ourselves. In today's world, where people are gravitating toward experiences, it is even more important.

Mindy Grossman

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The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

Jay Leno

WarNameSeemStillGivenOperation

Once, when I was playing a nude scene in an indifferent play in New York, a critic wrote, 'Diana Rigg is built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses.' Do you think that's fair?

Diana Rigg

New YorkFlyingThinkYouBrickNew

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Dorothea Dix

FearCharacterManInfluenceBetter

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

Donald Hall

WorkBeautyBeautifulArtPoetry

I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.

Allison Janney

DayAngerMeFeelLookFind

The name of Peru was not known to the natives.

William Prescott

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