Doug Elmendorf (Douglas William Elmendorf) Quotes

This legislation will cut subsidies substantially; millions of people will lose health insurance, but certainly people will be worse off.

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• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
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• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Best

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Real
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  • Action

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
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• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

  

  Mae West
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• I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
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• I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

  

  Yoko Ono
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  • Woman
  • Never

• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

  

  Ovid
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• Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
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• In fifty words: Granted mobility, security (in the form of denying targets to the enemy), time, and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.

  

  Burnie Burns

• Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg

• I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Job

• Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • People

• Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.

  

  John Collison
  • People
  • Vision

• You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

  

  Mick Jones The Clash
  • Writing
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• I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.

  

  Mario Cuomo

• What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

  

  Bernard Williams
  • World

• This legislation will cut subsidies substantially; millions of people will lose health insurance, but certainly people will be worse off.

  

  Doug Elmendorf
  • People
  • To Be
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