Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
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If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.
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There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.
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There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.
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Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.
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If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
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What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?
