John Delaney Quotes
Two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO has informed my view that our priorities must stress improving educational outcomes, rebuilding America's infrastructure, lowering health care costs, addressing climate change, reforming immigration, and ushering in an advanced energy economy.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I believe it is called 'Area 51' because of a project, the very first project that went on out there, in 1951.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO has informed my view that our priorities must stress improving educational outcomes, rebuilding America's infrastructure, lowering health care costs, addressing climate change, reforming immigration, and ushering in an advanced energy economy.
