Eric Adams Quotes
We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.
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Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.
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I was 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball.
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I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.
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Diane von Furstenberg is an extraordinary woman. She's modern. She's a mother, a grandmother, a leader.
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I started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.
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My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.
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Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
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We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.
