Lynne Cheney Quotes
Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
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In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
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One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
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Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.
