Denise Dresser Quotes

Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But in Mexico, members of the legislature cannot be reelected, so their destinies depend less on the will of the people than on party bosses.

Denise Dresser

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If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.

Jeremy Sumpter

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Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns.

Jerome Powell

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There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into a shot goes into the aesthetic issues of, 'Is it a good shot or not?'

John Knoll

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I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

Michael Ignatieff

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

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If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Stand Watie

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Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

Stevie Nicks

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I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

Steven Wright

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I've always felt that where Priest has been able to get to, it's been down to discipline, our real love and commitment to making the best music that we can make, and never forgetting our fan base.

Rob Halford

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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

Ronald Reagan

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I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

Lucy Walker

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Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.

Cory Lidle

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