David B. Rivkin Quotes
Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.
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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
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The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.
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To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical conditions. And you try to use your work to affect the situation.
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Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.
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As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.
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It's important for Oklahoma to have people in a position to make a difference. The only way we can do that is to have people in key places.
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Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
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I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
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There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
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I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.
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It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
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My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.
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I feel like I want to be an Indian all my career.
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Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.
