Christine Todd Whitman Quotes
The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.
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The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.
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Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
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The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.
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The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.
