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'm pretty simple. I have every product in the world, but I tend to use three things: cleanser, toner, and moisturizer.
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If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
