Andreas Feininger Quotes
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.
