Charlie Baker You just can’t get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it’s not necessarily anything that you’ve planned for or anticipated. – Charlie Baker Anticipated Quotes Planned Quotes Stuff Quotes Surprised Quotes Time Quotes Transom Quotes Weird Quotes The thing I would say is governments have the tendency to over-promise and under-perform. So the over-promise part ends up sounding very aspirational. But it’s the performance part that ultimately people feel every day and read about. And my goal is to make sure, whatever it is we aspire to, that we deliver on. I rode it a lot before I was governor. I rode the commuter rail for a lot of years, I rode the T for a lot of years, and I talk to people all the time who ride both.
Arvind Gupta We’re finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It’s very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry. – Arvind Gupta
Colm Toibin I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert’s and Beethoven’s chamber music and Sibelius’ symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner. – Colm Toibin
Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. – Anne Perry
Justine Skye There’s always competition in the world, but you don’t have to be enemies. You can empower each other. – Justine Skye
Leslie Jones Bill Murray was just so funny to me – there wasn’t anything spooking him. – Leslie Jones
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