Alice Rivlin Quotes
Indeed, I hope to spend more time and to be more effectively involved in the city than I have been able to be at the Fed.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
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Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner.
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I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.
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I only watch the last 40 seconds. Watching a whole marathon over time, the beginning, middle and end look very slow. I want to see action! I can't help it.
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Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.
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Indeed, I hope to spend more time and to be more effectively involved in the city than I have been able to be at the Fed.
