George Pataki Quotes
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Broadway is really my life.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
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In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct?
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
