Christine Todd Whitman Quotes
We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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I arrived there straight from Africa' - and I can tell you, Minnesota soon taught me the value of a thick overcoat, a warm scarf and even ear-muffs!
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
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No one's trying to get with jugglers.
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People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.
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We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.
