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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As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.
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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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Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.
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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.
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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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I told our guys it's very important for us to go home this winter and not give anybody the ability to call us losers again. They've been called that for 12 straight years.
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Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex with everyone. I don't know where that was coming from, but there was such a need to connect physically - obviously, for me to connect physically to myself. There were times, like I say in the book, where you lay on top of me, when you push me down, when you're inside me.
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When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.
