David Fahrenthold Quotes
What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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I was a very passionate basketball player, really enjoyed the sport. I played it my entire life.
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Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
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What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.
