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 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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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 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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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
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There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
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I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.
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You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.
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I don't want to be owned by anyone.
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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
