John Podesta Quotes
There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
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Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.
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I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
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Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there are no golden years, but a time of struggle and dependence. That was the United States before the creation of Social Security, which has proven to be one of the most effective and important government programs in our history.
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In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.
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There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
