David Plouffe Quotes
It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
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I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
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Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.
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I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.
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It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.
