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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SoftBank is not a specialist on any instrument. We did not invent any instrument. Not the best player. But we would like to be a conductor of this information revolution.
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You have a soft spot in your heart for each movie, and you're doing certain things. You're learning as you're going, as a director, and each movie is its own entity.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police department and the community are working together so that we can resolve many of the issues that we face in our community.
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We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it? Clintonworld is a galaxy where personal enrichment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of jarringly familiar characters pad their pockets every which way to Sunday.
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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.
