Lamar Alexander Quotes
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.Lamar Alexander
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
Carly Fiorina -
Snobbery just inhibits you.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
Bat for Lashes -
What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
Francesco Quinn -
The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
Halsey -
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
Carine Roitfeld -
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten -
The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Patrick deWitt -
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
Adam Lambert -
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Nancy Gibbs -
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Ralph Richardson -
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah -
When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
Ted Sarandos -
Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.
Meek Mill -
I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
Sally Phillips -
Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'
Amelie Nothomb -
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
Jerry Saltz -
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
Lamar Alexander