Valerie Jarrett Quotes
President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
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My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.
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The only way I'd need a pain reliever to enjoy sex is if all of my fantasies came true at the same time.
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
