Janet Weiss Quotes
You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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General Clark walked the campus like a retired deity and ignored the general run of cadets.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.
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The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
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The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.
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Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.
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Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.
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You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.
