Christopher Lasch Quotes
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I'm telling you stories. Trust me.
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There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
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It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
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Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
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I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.
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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
