Erskine Bowles Quotes
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I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
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I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.
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My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.
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When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
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Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.
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The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.
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The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.
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(Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
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I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.
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Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
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When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.
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I am not a politician.
