Erskine Bowles Quotes
And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
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Chi parla troppo non può parlar sempre bene.
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It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide-but so quickly close again!
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Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction.
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U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.
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The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
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One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
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To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.
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Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.
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I never understood when people would say, 'I would die for my child,' but you become so selfless.
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
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As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
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We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.
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I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.
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Generalized statements … which instill nebulous fear without specific information are exactly in line with the goals of terrorism. 25.
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I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.
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Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
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The sun is always shining someplace.
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And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.
