Pete Sessions Quotes
Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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I've been a friend to people who may not have had perfect pasts.
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A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
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It's not going to be true that every country has the same technological possibilities, but there is no reason why it might not be more or less true. Broadly, that the idea that the same technologies should be available everywhere seems to me very plausible.
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Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.
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Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that.
