Clare Short Quotes
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Don't go through life, grow through life.
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I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.
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You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.
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To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.
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Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.
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Creativity has no boundaries.
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When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
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I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.
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Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.
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For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.
