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 personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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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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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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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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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.
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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.
