Jacob Lew Quotes
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.
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'WhatsApp' provides phone number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field.
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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
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There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.
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I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
