Betsy Lerner Quotes
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.
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White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.
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My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.
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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.
