William Easterly Quotes
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
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The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
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I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
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Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.
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I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.
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Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.
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Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.
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What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.
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The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.
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I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
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I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.
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Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel.
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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.
