"Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing."

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Source : Tom Vilsack's at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

Tom Vilsack

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Long Quotes

“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.”

Source : Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage
“Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they're gone. Look at me at 50, I'm going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.”
“I never went into it [the business] thinking 'I'm a female sports reporter'. I just went into it thinking 'I'm a sports reporter'. No chip on the shoulder, no feeling like a victim when you walk in, no feeling entitled when you walk in. You've just got to do your job and work extremely hard. I think it's very basic. There's no magic to it. I think honestly it comes down to how badly do you want it. How hard are you willing to work?”
“I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.”

Source : "David Hornsby Talks Unsupervised Season 1" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 19, 2012.
“I don't care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, 'I accept that I have diabetes, and I'm not going to let it run my entire life.' It's a fine line, a Catch-22, a balancing act. I work to enjoy my life like a regular human being and at the same time keep my blood sugar levels as decent as possible.”
“It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?”
“A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.”
“Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ***** as it floats by.”

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