Claire Scovell LaZebnik Quotes

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

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Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.

John Boehner

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It's so perfectly Alaska to be like, 'Dad we're going to the Grammys,' and for him to be like, 'Oh, well that's great, Johnny. All right, gotta go back to work.'

John Gourley

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I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Robert Ludlum

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In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

Anna Louise Strong

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Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find someone reliable to do a deal with, you simply don't do the deal at all.

Amity Shlaes

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The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

Amanda Foreman

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I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.

Spike Jonze

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When you write a song, a song has longevity.

Smokey Robinson

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We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Steve Scalise

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Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're making a statement about communities you don't care about.

Tom Perez

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Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

Tom Stoppard

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You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Colley Cibber

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