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Sylvia Mathews Burwell

"My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change."

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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“Now the dictatorship or call it the 'Indonesian regime', fully consolidated its power... You see, the West told Indonesians, indirectly of course, that 'democracy' is when you have several or many political parties, and people vote at least once in a while. But it is total nonsense. Democracy is when you vote and your vote can actually totally change the course of your nation.”
“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson
“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”
“The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.”
“The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.”
“Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.”
“It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.”
“For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.”

Source : "Q&A: James Spader repeats history in 'Lincoln'". Interview with Amanda Meyncke, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2012.

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