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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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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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If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
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Violence needs to stop. All of us - men and women - need to speak up and teach our children that violence is never the solution. Together we can all make a difference. The best place to start is with yourself.
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What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
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Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn't find 40 wise men in the cave. But to label everyone in Trumpworld a grifter misses important subtleties. It conflates grifters and grafters, and it ignores the crucial distinction between the two.
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I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.
