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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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 have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.
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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
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I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
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Fay: I'm innocent till I'm proved guilty. This is a free country. The law is impartial.Truscott: Who's been filling your head with that rubbish?Fay: I can't be had for anything. You've no proof.Truscott: When I make out my report I shall say you've given me a confession. It could prejudice your case if I have to forge one.
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Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
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. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
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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.
