Elliot Richardson Quotes
But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
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I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.
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But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.
