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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In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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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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If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory-of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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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.
