Charles M. Blow Quotes
Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?Charles M. Blow
Quotes to Explore
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
Taylor Swift -
There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
Ed Koch -
It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.
Idina Menzel -
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
Hamdi Ulukaya
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
Jack Falahee -
I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
Tavis Smiley -
If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
Nancy Pelosi -
There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
Feist -
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
Harriet Martineau -
I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these cool fun hats from Europe I have. I love to collect different ones from every country. I have them from London to Brussels.
Kat Graham
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If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
Malcolm X -
That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
RaeLynn -
I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean
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I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
Ellen Datlow -
What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.
Salar Kamangar -
There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
Jack Kemp -
It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.
Anand Giridharadas -
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
Adolph Zukor -
Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?
Charles M. Blow