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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Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
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I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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Do something good for yourself today. You matter.
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Faith Alone is what really matters.
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But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
