Susan Rice Quotes
What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.
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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.
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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
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What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.
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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.
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Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.
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I'm dragging the audience to hell with me
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
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It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
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What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
