Jim Costa Quotes
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months. We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.
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I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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I did a movie with Christopher Reeve when I first came to L.A. called 'Switching Channels.' I asked him if it was weird to be Superman. He said, 'You know, George, I've fought against this whole Superman thing, but one day I realized, 'Hey, I'm Superman.'' So, at some point, I just started saying, 'Good for me, I'm Bryan MacKenzie.'
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I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
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Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
