Ted Kulongoski Quotes
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Very ugly things were said about me.
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.