Lawrence Summers Quotes

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

Lawrence Summers

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I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

Jess Walter

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But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.

John Otto

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Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

Max Heindel

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I cook every day for six hours. It's my therapy. My love.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

John Wells

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If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

John Updike

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I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.

Stephanie Herseth

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Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Martin Van Buren

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Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

Bob Woodward

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Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company - what a wonderful woman.

Anne Reid

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My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

Anne Frank

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We've never been political, and our fans like us that way. Music is supposed to be fun. But we do drop a positive message.

Pepa

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