Jacob Lew Quotes
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.
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I would love to do something with Coldplay.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
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Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.
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O my son, thy lips still smell of milk, and thy heart should go out to pleasure. But the days are grave, and Iran looketh unto thee in its danger.
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I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
