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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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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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 fell in love with doing yoga.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson, because they defined what a president is. They are the idea, and you can't be better than the idea.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.
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But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
