Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.

Gretchen Rubin

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Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.

Michael Hayden

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I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

Stephen Colbert

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I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.

Tommy Kirk

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Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

Roger Bannister

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By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

Ron Chernow

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I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Ruth Rendell

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When you're raising a little kid, you tell that kid to go after their goals and their dreams. And you tell them to work as hard as anybody.

Romeo Miller

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If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

Judd Gregg

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It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

Jarvis Cocker

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I always want to take on the giants.

Christen Press

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The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

William J. Mayo

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Who can refute a sneer?

William Paley

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