Margrethe Vestager Quotes
Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
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The language of communication will always need to be renewed.
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I sacrificed to the mania of the age, which is to overload things. My modeling is there, the eloquence of the gesture also. The rest would only spoil the essential things. It is a stroke of genius. I am going to write to the under-secretary of state that my monument is ready.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.
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You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
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Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.
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Some of the perceptions from my professors were that I was less than or that I wouldn't be able to compete or wouldn't be able to meet the same bar as my peers. I don't want that for my daughter or for any of the girls who come into our program.
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There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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It was a lonely thing. There was no way to be sure if it meant the same thing to both of you. He’d forgotten that part of making love, how you couldn’t assume that intent was as joined as bodies were.
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The real threat comes from terrorism.
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Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.
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Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.
