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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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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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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Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
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I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
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A legitimate enterprise had to have some moral basis, and the only morality the company knew was debt.
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The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City.
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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.
