While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.
‐‐ Jane D. Hull
While I have strongly and consistently supported the Clean Power Plan, and continue to do so, I cannot and will not support a proposal for a cap-and-trade system.
‐‐ Chris Gibson
While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
‐‐ Patricia Millett
While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.
‐‐ Mike Ross
While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
‐‐ Maya Angelou
While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they're pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract.
‐‐ Lauren Groff
While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar
While I live with my family in South Florida, I enjoy visiting New York and always appreciate seeing so many Univision fans.
‐‐ Raul de Molina
While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs
While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
‐‐ Jack Falahee
While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
‐‐ Nick Denton
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson
While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.
‐‐ Kim Fields
While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.
‐‐ Chris Avellone
While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.
‐‐ David Talbot
While I'm driving, I've got speed, gear, lap time, water temperature, blood sugar, RPM, oil pressure. I've got car data and body data all together. It's all on the dash.
‐‐ Charlie Kimball
While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.
‐‐ Kevin Whately
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
‐‐ Frances Bean Cobain
While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted.
‐‐ Psy
While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.
‐‐ Akon
While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
‐‐ Henry Hopper
While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beautiful scenery.
‐‐ Dylan Lauren
While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies and novels, on the other hand, are easy to understand. So what I like to do is use pop cultural ephemera of all kinds as tools to help me try to understand philosophy.
‐‐ Douglas Lain
While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
‐‐ Johann Lamont
While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
‐‐ Garth Brooks
While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.
‐‐ Trevor Rabin
While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?
‐‐ Janet Reno
While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.
‐‐ Christy Romano
While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
‐‐ Hakan Nesser
While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
‐‐ Jennifer Armentrout
While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.
‐‐ Kris Carr
While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders
While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
‐‐ Ted Nugent
While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg
While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
‐‐ Rahul Dravid
While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.
‐‐ Gregory Maguire
While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
‐‐ George Hamilton
While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.
‐‐ Michael K. Simpson
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
‐‐ Odilon Redon
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
‐‐ Tom Allen
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.
‐‐ Ron Kind
While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes' commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.
‐‐ Cliff Curtis
While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
‐‐ Gary Lucas