David Plouffe Quotes
And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Learning difficulties are a cover for rich parents with dumb kids...That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia - because he's retarded.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - there's no substitute for hard work.
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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
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And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
