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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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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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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My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
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I love my work - it's what I know how to do best.
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'I have a plan,' said Xaros, 'improbable only in its genius.'
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That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
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My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.
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Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
