Mark Leibovich Quotes
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.
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Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.
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My primary responsibility is to be funny.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Always the journey, never the destination.
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I always keep my repertorial hat on.
