Hanoi Hannah Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
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I would like to see America some day.
