William Weld Quotes
We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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We are running a very strong and effective grassroots campaign. People can look for more of that in the next three weeks as we will be reaching out and touching as many people as we can.
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That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
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There is always a chance [for negotiations with Japan], or else it makes no sense to talk. How great is it? Right now, it is difficult for me to say, because this will depend, among other things, on the flexibility of our partners.
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One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.
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We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.
