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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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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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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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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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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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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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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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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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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I've been very lucky.
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When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
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There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.
