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 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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And I say it's not. I tell them these men and women are over there because our country sent them, and we have the absolute necessity to try to bring them as much happiness as we can.
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You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.
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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
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I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.
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There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
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We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.
