Alice Rivlin Quotes
They've been excellent appointments. These people are in the tradition of strong, well-qualified, non-ideological economists.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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Let's treat this country first and foremost.
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There are silver ships
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They've been excellent appointments. These people are in the tradition of strong, well-qualified, non-ideological economists.
