Susan Cheever Quotes
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
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I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
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Courage always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it."
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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There is no such thing as expecting too much.
