John Reed Quotes
It was great to do it against Saint Rose. My father's whole family went there. I broke the Saint Rose chain. I was going crazy at the end, but they weren't going to foul me. I knew I'd have to get a rebound to draw the foul, and that's what happened.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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With our dramas, we have a lot of shows that feature very well-to-do, well-educated people who are driving very nice cars and living in extremely nice places.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.
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When I prepare for a match, it's like work, even the way I have to shower and put on my makeup.
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It was great to do it against Saint Rose. My father's whole family went there. I broke the Saint Rose chain. I was going crazy at the end, but they weren't going to foul me. I knew I'd have to get a rebound to draw the foul, and that's what happened.
