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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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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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 impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
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Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.
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When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you aren't willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.
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I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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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.
