Keith Ellison Quotes
Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.
Quotes to Explore
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.
