Lawrence Summers Quotes
I know that there is one additional thing that I've learned and that is that what Harvard does and says has an enormous resonance that goes beyond Zip code 02138.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
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I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.
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Wearers of rings and chains!Pray do not take the pains To set me right.In vain my faults ye quote;I write as others wrote On Sunium’s hight.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man’s average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time, while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
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In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.
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To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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I don't want to put down my work - I'm very proud of the work I've done.
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The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.
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I know that there is one additional thing that I've learned and that is that what Harvard does and says has an enormous resonance that goes beyond Zip code 02138.
