Alex Sink Quotes
The four of us sit as kind of a board of directors for 12 incredibly important functions. It's very important that we get more diversity on the Cabinet. It's not a good thing to have all four positions on the Cabinet run by one political party where they aren't about to step on each other's toes.
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
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I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.
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I'd say probably the most epic experience was before the Victoria's Secret show - I think it was before the casting - and I saw Naomi Campbell at a party. I was saying that I was nervous about my walk and she said "Come to my hotel tomorrow and we're going to practice." So I went in New York and we practiced in the hallway of her hotel with all of the hotel staff watching. She just said "Don't even flinch. Keep going!" It was hilarious, but I think that was kind of a confidence booster.
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The four of us sit as kind of a board of directors for 12 incredibly important functions. It's very important that we get more diversity on the Cabinet. It's not a good thing to have all four positions on the Cabinet run by one political party where they aren't about to step on each other's toes.
