Lisa Madigan Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids.
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The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
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The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some.
