E. J. Dionne Quotes
The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.E. J. Dionne
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
Eddie Redmayne -
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
F. Sionil Jose -
It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
Ted Cruz -
All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
Laura Linney -
I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
Nate Parker
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
Fisher Stevens -
There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
G. Edward Griffin -
People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
J. D. Vance -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
Viktor Yanukovych -
In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
M. J. Rose
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson -
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Orison Swett Marden -
If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
J. D. Vance -
I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.
Ban Ki-moon -
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
Harold E. Varmus
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With yoga, it works every part of the body and increases range of motion. People think you get super flexible and you lose your power in sport. I'm getting back to normal because I'm so wound up and tight.
Christen Press -
The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
Andy Grove -
When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
Harold E. Varmus -
Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
Beck -
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.
Ayn Rand -
The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.
E. J. Dionne