Anthony Foxx Quotes
If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
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I like to Instagram my dogs! I also get excited to post behind-the-scenes photos from when I was filming something.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.
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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
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I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
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I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.
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I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
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My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
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My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.
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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
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So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
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A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use."
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.
