Dee Dee Myers Quotes
Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
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Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.
