Jim Bridenstine Quotes
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
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I'm definitely scared about newspapers. The problem is nobody wants to catch a falling knife, and nobody knows where things will stabilise. The value of newspapers has dropped significantly. I think we still have more pain to be felt.
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I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
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Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
