Edward Glaeser Quotes
The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city’s success.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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I only wear black. I think it suits me.
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In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.
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If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
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The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city’s success.
