David Folkenflik Quotes
I think it's very important to be able to hear from our public leaders in ways that they can't entirely orchestrate, seeing them speak live and unscripted and take questions that they themselves haven't arranged ahead of time. I think this is a way in which citizens who are deciding what they think of their leaders who govern in their name, this is one of the ways in which they can evaluate how they feel about the quality of the leadership.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
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I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
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I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
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I'm a homebody times ten.
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I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.
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Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.
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'Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken.
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I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.
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God’s truth is this: abortion is murder.
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It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.
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We hope British citizens will follow it, but we have no way of obliging British citizens to do so.
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If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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I think it's very important to be able to hear from our public leaders in ways that they can't entirely orchestrate, seeing them speak live and unscripted and take questions that they themselves haven't arranged ahead of time. I think this is a way in which citizens who are deciding what they think of their leaders who govern in their name, this is one of the ways in which they can evaluate how they feel about the quality of the leadership.
