Paul Wellstone Quotes
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
