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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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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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.
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I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.
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It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.
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For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.
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I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.
