Doug Elmendorf (Douglas William Elmendorf) Quotes
I think that the reaction to CBO’s analysis is a very reassuring sign that we are not in a post-factual world.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.
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The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
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We are therefore driven by both basic survival instincts and rational thought.
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I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.
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I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
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Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.
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I think that the reaction to CBO’s analysis is a very reassuring sign that we are not in a post-factual world.
