Alice Rivlin Quotes
The real need is not for more hospital beds. It's for more primary care and keeping people out of hospital beds and emergency rooms.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.
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Now, at this time, I think there’s too many people who feel comfortable with hate speech. It’s become too commonplace, and acceptable. And it’s not okay, and we’ve got to change that…I think we also have to take responsibility for the words that come out of our mouths, because we are all connected. We are all part of one community.
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The real need is not for more hospital beds. It's for more primary care and keeping people out of hospital beds and emergency rooms.
