Tom Ridge Quotes
I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.
Quotes to Explore
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.
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I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.
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I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.
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I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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Every time you see a new paradigm emerge, it's always new vendors that lead it. I can't think of one case where an incumbent led a paradigm shift.
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I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.
