Tony Snow Quotes
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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My motivation at the moment is around knowing how it feels to turn a business around, and I can't wait to have that feeling again.
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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
