Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sick

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prove

• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Everything
  • Create

• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Enthusiasm

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Maybe

• I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Leader
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• A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
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• I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
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• It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
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• My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

  

  Aaron Koblin
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  • Explore

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
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  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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  • Simple

• Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

  

  Matthew Walker
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• All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

  

  Piers Anthony

• Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.

  

  Carol Vorderman
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• I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

  

  Anthony Pratt
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• The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

  

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