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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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'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he's the best chipper I've ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.
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There is no such thing as expecting too much.
