Janet Napolitano Quotes
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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No, I try not to be a negative thinker.
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
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Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
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I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.
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Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.
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I'm proud of a lot of things I've said on Twitter.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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I enjoy French poetry as well as French prose, and I believe that this land must have some cultural connection with the European continent, and that she is best connected through her spiritual complement across the Straits of Dover.
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The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.
