Nina Totenberg Quotes
What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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I love to smile.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
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I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.
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We take the same line as the United States: the austerity policies need to be accompanied by greater flexibility to stimulate growth.
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Competition among schools is always a great motivator.
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What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
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The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.
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I'm beyond lucky to have fallen in love with my best friend.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.
