James Lankford Quotes
There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn't meet security standards, and it's the secretary of state.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people’s intentions are good and that they want to solve problems. Give them responsibility, let the mistakes happen, and let people fix them. If there is fear, there is a reason—our job is to find the reason and to remedy it. Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.
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My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
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The dream book is always the next book.
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There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn't meet security standards, and it's the secretary of state.
