Celia Rees Quotes
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.
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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
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Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.
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Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.
