Jodi Rell Quotes
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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We care about margins.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I don't think about the media.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.
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I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
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Tilting the head to the side is a submission signal because it exposes the throat and neck and makes the person look smaller and less threatening. Its probable origin is in the baby resting its head on its parent's shoulder or chest, and the submissive, nonthreatening meaning it conveys seems to be unconsciously understood by most people, especially women.
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Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.
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If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.
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Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.
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We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
