Alice Rivlin Quotes
I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Respect the burden.
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My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.
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I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.
