Jacob Weisberg Quotes
Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where ordinary humans live.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
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The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
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Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where ordinary humans live.
