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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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
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Nobody who has even kicked a ball in the street likes losing.
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The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.
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I would like to see America some day.
