Neera Tanden Quotes
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I don't think about the media.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
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I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.
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I think that I am the person who can do all aspects of the job. I think I'm the person best prepared to take the case to the Republicans. And I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much electability. It is who the American people can believe can keep them safe, can get the economy moving again, can get incomes rising, can build on the progressive accomplishments of President [Barack] Obama.
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I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.
