Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Quotes
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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If I feel like I need a little color, I'll get a natural spray tan. Not only does this give me a little extra coverage, but it also allows me to achieve the bronzed look I want without the sun damage.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I will run against anybody.
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I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
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Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.
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What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
