Xavier Becerra Quotes

If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

Xavier Becerra

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At Airbnb, we're trying to build a culture that supports details, celebrates them, and gives our teams creative license to pursue them.

Joe Gebbia

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I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

Jeff Duncan

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I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.

John Sulston

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When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

John Ridley

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I just want to get better all around and contribute more.

Stefon Diggs

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We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

Tony Visconti

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I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

Tom Vilsack

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In the end, the public has the right to know about any undertakings top public officials engage in that may influence how they conduct the people's business.

Mike Quigley

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Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

Jason Reitman

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Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.

Jose Andres

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