Emanuel Celler Quotes
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.
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I don't want to be an opinion anchor.
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Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.
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My mom, whether it's right or wrong, she had dreams for me to have a certain life. It takes time to get used to that. But they've been really supportive, and they love me for exactly who I am.
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Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
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Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
