Frances Beinecke Quotes

I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.

Frances Beinecke

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I've been working hard my whole life.

Jessica Sanchez

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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

John Ciardi

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I've traveled a fair amount around the country and visited many states. It's amazing that Oregon is so different from Idaho; even though Portland isn't that far from Boise, it's a completely different city. Colorado is very different from Oregon. From a European perspective, I've always found that fascinating about America.

Andrew Haigh

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I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up doing, it's going the full distance, covering three hundred pages or so, but they do it by just writing five or six long stories, and weaving them together, making them interdependent.

Stephen Graham Jones

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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

Russell Banks

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It's kind of crazy to say your home field is Lambeau Field.

Mike Daniels

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I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

Michael Lehmann

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I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.

DeRay Mckesson

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People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Chris Hughes

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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

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Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that's good. I've got a lot of positive energy.

Antonio Brown

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I usually start my day when my kids wake up.

Anne Wojcicki

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