Bernie Sanders Quotes
The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I love cycling.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.
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We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.
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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.
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The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party.
