Amity Shlaes Quotes

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.

Amity Shlaes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1960

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I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.

John Niven

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To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

John Walters

WorkBetterOthersMakeMostLives

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

Robert Carlyle

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When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

Rita Ora

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I don't care about no boxing legacy. I don't care where they put me on the list of all-time greats - let them put me at the bottom.

Roy Jones Jr.

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When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'

Mary Lou Williams

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I'm not a Christian.

Michael Sheen

Christian

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

Miranda Otto

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

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The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

Diane Mott Davidson

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The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

Deepak Chopra

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The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Craig Bruce

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