Alice Rivlin Quotes
Well, it was hard to find anybody, but I called my high school boyfriend and said, 'Can you tell the FBI what I was doing in the summer of '52?' And he said, 'Sure, if you'll remind me.' And I did, and he did, and -- that was fine.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
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Well, it was hard to find anybody, but I called my high school boyfriend and said, 'Can you tell the FBI what I was doing in the summer of '52?' And he said, 'Sure, if you'll remind me.' And I did, and he did, and -- that was fine.
