Beto O'Rourke Quotes
Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
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I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.
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Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.
