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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I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.
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It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!
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Without the library, I would have been lost.
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Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
