Eliot Spitzer Quotes
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.
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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
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Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.
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I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.
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I learned to bat and bowl on different pitches and knew when to go hard and when to back off. It was just something I learned.
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Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
