James McGreevey Quotes
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
Maggie Hassan
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
Frances Fisher
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
Nathan Fielder
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
Dambisa Moyo
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
Palmer Luckey
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
Garth Hudson
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
Zell Miller
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
Adam DeVine
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
Zack Greinke
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
Paddy Ashdown
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Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.
Molly Sims
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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
Wallace Shawn
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
Tacitus
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I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.
Alli Simpson
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I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
James McGreevey