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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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping
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One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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There is no such thing as expecting too much.
