John Avlon Quotes
We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.
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My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.
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The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
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Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart: you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning.
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If a segment of one's force is located where it is not sufficiently busy with the enemy, or if the troops are on the march - that is, idle - while the enemy is fighting, then these forces are being managed uneconomically. In this sense they are being wasted, which is even worse than using them inappropriately.
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Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.
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On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
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Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
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Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy.
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Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.
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In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
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We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
