Jacob Lew Quotes
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
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I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.
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There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
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A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.
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Collectivism stands for a society in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, which throughout people's lifetime continue to protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.
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Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.
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If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.
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If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
