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Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.


Terry Branstad

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ALAN GREENSPAN I’m breaking
down
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got so
little time
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TERRY WOGAN Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwid...
TERRY TEACHOUT The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.
TERRY BRADSHAW Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, t...
TERRY GLAVIN I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.
TERRY CREWS The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul...
TERRY EAGLETON Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, bu...
TERRY SAVAGE It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being o...
TERRY RILEY Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
TERRY RILEY By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that...
TERRY PRATCHETT My thing is you're only as good as the people you work with. I've been blessed to work with ...
TERRY CREWS When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddi...
TERRY CREWS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS