Sidney Blumenthal Quotes
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
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Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
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I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!
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I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
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We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
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The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
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I think it is difficult to achieve a meaningful political coalition if you have race-based programs that divide members of the coalition. The problem I have, however, is that white people assume an either/or position: Either we have race-based programs or we don't. What I see is comprehensive social reform that includes race-based and race-neutral programs.
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But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
