Paul Bremer Quotes
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.
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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
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My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
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Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.
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I like statement flats that can take you from day to night.
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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
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My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.
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“The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.”
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The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
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The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do.
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Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
