Nora Volkow Quotes
When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
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Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
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They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
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When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.
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Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code for metrics. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.
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Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.
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When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.
