Christine Todd Whitman Quotes

As a former governor, I am familiar with the challenge of balancing the immediate electricity and heating needs of our citizens with the long-term priority of ensuring that power comes from a diverse mix of energy sources that allows us flexibility as we fight the effects of climate change.

Christine Todd Whitman

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I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

Jess Walter

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I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

Jessica Pare

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In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.

Jeff Greenfield

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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

John Ruskin

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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

John Podhoretz

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'Have you ever considered changing the name Nasty Gal?' is probably the dumbest question I've ever heard.

Sophia Amoruso

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The federal government was created to defend the United States, not to wage war upon it.

Robert Zubrin

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So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.

Louie Gohmert

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You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

Jarvis Cocker

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It doesn't matter if it's a small role: if I know I can pull it off and have a good team, I will do it.

Disha Patani

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I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

David Wenham

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I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Dawn French

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