Anthony Foxx Quotes
The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
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The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.
