Anthony Foxx Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
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A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
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I support same-sex marriage.
