Allen Weinstein Quotes
Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.
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Traditional models of work only let us cross out the needs on the very bottom of the pyramid - basic sustenance. On the flipside, independent employment within the network of the new sharing economy addresses our needs for a sense of community and belonging, autonomy and respect, creativity and problem solving.
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.
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After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.
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Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
