Blanche Wiesen Cook Quotes
One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never had a home of her own, who lives in her grandmother's home and then goes to school and then gets married and lives in her mother-in-law's homes, and then in public housing (like the White House and the State House) - housing becomes for Eleanor Roosevelt the most important issue.

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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Our platform is a one-stop shop, from marketing and promotion through to ticketing. But even in the early days, in 2006-07, when we were mostly carrying shortform video, we became the premier movie marketing platform.
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I moved across the country when I was 16, so I left my high school and finished school online in order to pursue my acting more.
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I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never had a home of her own, who lives in her grandmother's home and then goes to school and then gets married and lives in her mother-in-law's homes, and then in public housing (like the White House and the State House) - housing becomes for Eleanor Roosevelt the most important issue.