Laura Miller Quotes
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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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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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.
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Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.
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Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.
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I don't really like L.A. much anymore. It's a hideous city. The weather's nice sometimes. It's just too crowded for me and too claustrophobic and too aggressive and too scary, and too chaotic. Did I say chaotic already? I like the country. I like quiet.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
