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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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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...I have this scar on my hand (points to shoulder). I see a lot of these guys who come with scars on their hands. It’s ridiculous. With me it was an accident. These kids do it on purpose. You can’t prove by doing such things that you are the biggest fan there is. I am myself thinking about getting a plastic surgery done to remove this. I also get a lot of people writing to me with their blood. I have stopped replying to those mails altogether.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.
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The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
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I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
