Nina Totenberg Quotes
I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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Today's numbers are not good news, and I think it's a clear reflection that the attacks of Sept. 11 are still reverberating around our economy. I think it's really important that the U.S. Senate begin to act on the president's economic security package.
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I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.
