Alice Rivlin Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.
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Anderson [Cooper]first of all, in case anybody's wondering because they'll somehow read my mind after this broadcast ... I find those comments to be disgusting and reprehensible, and I'm really glad that he apologized.
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For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.
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Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
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Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.
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The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
