Dorothy Denning Quotes
I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
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Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
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But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
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I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.
