Beth Simone Noveck Quotes
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I grew up in the dark ages, pre-digital, when everyone would wait for a magazine each month to see these models who became legendary and iconic, like Kate Moss.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.
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It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
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The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
