"I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue."

-- Christine Gregoire

#Giving Up Quotes #Scratches Quotes #Able Quotes

“We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.”
“Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.”
“I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.”
“Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.”
“It is hard to deal with someone who smiles and pretends to like you to your face and sticks that eight inch blade in your back when you turn around.”
“I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.”

Source : Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.
“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.”
“I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.”

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