Mark Leibovich Quotes
When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I'm quite calm when all is well.
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For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in.
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I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
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There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.
