Frances Beinecke Quotes
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
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At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
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I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
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Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.
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Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
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“Without accurate intelligence, no strategy could be effective.”
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
