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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#realize #understand #virtue #you

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

#burdensome #community #feels #flood #insurance

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#already #borne #both #come #costs

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21. ↗

— Monica Keena

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I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#get #go #i #i do #love

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

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But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#call #could #enjoyable #hobby #most

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#around #biography #doing #going #him

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#come #dealt #death #fear #forced