Ellen Willis Quotes
For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I don't know anything about music.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
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I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.
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For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.
