Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
Adam Michnik
Recitation: by Male by Female
You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing.
Joe Biden
YouTaxWhateverPlayingCarbon
There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.
John Updike
LifeWorkGreatYouDeskTry
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
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I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
Michelle Hunziker
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Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.
Mike Barnicle
TruthHistoryRealityQuietNever
Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
Louise Slaughter
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It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.
Julen Lopetegui
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I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous.
Johnny Thunders
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I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
Donna Shalala
LifePeopleMeWholeSpent
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
Dee Dee Myers
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work - people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don't agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind.
Willie Geist
WorkPeopleMindFearlessWorld
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