Week Quotes - Page 29

• The president receives an inspector general's report that the Office of Personnel Management could be hacked into; they had antiquated firewalls; 23 million files have been - are in the hands of the Chinese allegedly, including, by the way, members of the press, it turns out, last week. Maybe that's the only part that's good news, so that you guys can get a feel for what it's like now to see this type of attack.

  Jeb Bush

  Hands, Office, Guy

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Looks, Hours

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated and didn't talk much to other kids. She was a little overweight, and the other kids looked down on her for that reason.But then she made a discovery about how to do something on the computer. The discovery was picked up by other kids, and within a few weeks there was a total transformation. This kid was now in demand. And that changed her feeling about herself.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Book, Kids

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.

  Sherman Alexie

  Two, Effort, Bed

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.

  Nico Tortorella

  Yoga, Class, Work Out

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's a heartbeat in any country that carries on regardless - at least in Europe. That's what worries me about America, because I'm not sure what that heartbeat is - unless it's the heartbeat of someone who's just arrived, who just ran over the border two weeks ago.

  Helen Mirren

  Country, Heart, Europe

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc.

  Peter Menzel

  Common Sense, Missing, Important

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• I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Jobs, Flower, Two

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food. But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera.

  Wendy Williams

  Cutting, Mexican, Etcetera

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I like making series, for a couple reasons. One, the repetition of routine is very healthy because I can get a little crazy; I want to be making things all the time. And if I publish something every week, I don't have to put every idea I have into one piece. It's more like, here's one idea: execute it, see it through, think about it, do it the best you can. And then there are going to be ten more ideas that come while you're making that, because creativity works that way.

  Paul Madonna

  Couple, Crazy, Creativity

  Interview with Julie Greicius, therumpus.net. December 7, 2009.

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• I like working in series, so instead of just doing one separate body of work, what if I come up with a different rhythm, instead of every week, what if I make it every year? And so I'm still setting up a series, a repetition, but it's a completely different work flow.

  Paul Madonna

  Years, What If, Different

  Interview with Julie Greicius, therumpus.net. December 7, 2009.

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• The thing about how that process works is that it's more about the editing and time for judging the ideas. Most pieces I publish each week have been around for months. This is a response to the beginning of the strip, when I was making them so quickly. I would just conceive a piece, finish it, and then the next day see it in the paper. That was when I was doing dailies four days a week.

  Paul Madonna

  Editing, Ideas, Next Day

  Interview with Julie Greicius, therumpus.net. December 7, 2009.

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• I set up a system for myself where I work on a lot of pieces at once. I'll switch between them and keep working on a piece until it comes together, and then I'll publish it. This way some pieces can take a year if they need to. The trick is to just make sure one is ready every week.

  Paul Madonna

  Years, Together, Needs

  Interview with Julie Greicius, therumpus.net. December 7, 2009.

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• I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.

  Chris Isaak

  Home, Past, Hair

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• I got married and basically forgot about Elvis. Then Speedway came. That was the most fun of all, to see him every day all those weeks.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Fun, Married

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• Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love Life, Thinking, Doe

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

  Martin Luther

  Church, Going To Church, Irony

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• They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Stars, Past, Thinking

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• Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings.

  Jay Leno

  Karma, Believe, Flower

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• Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's going, why bother?.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Crooks, Lasts

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• I work out at least 5 times a week.

  Erin Heatherton

  Work Out

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• We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or six weeks later Republicans pull the same game they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything - unless this happens, we're not going to agree to increasing the debt ceiling.' I agree with the president, it has to be a package deal.

  Harry Reid

  Games, Work Out, President

  "Reid: Tie debt ceiling, fiscal cliff" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. November 27, 2012.

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• As we move forward to debate our economic and fiscal challenges in the weeks and months ahead, one thing is clear: Our economic agenda, choices and decisions, will be viewed through the perspective and the eyes of our nation's women and their needs and those of their families.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Moving, Eye, Perspective

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• There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don't, they can't pay their bills. Something's wrong with that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Baby, Couple, Cutting

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• If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.

  Alex Ferguson

  Play, Consistency, Levels

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