Bruce Babbitt Quotes
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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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.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.
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The secret of success is sincerity.
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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
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At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.
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No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
