Christine Todd Whitman Quotes
As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist.
