John Avlon Quotes
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Those who go along get along.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.
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I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
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Gay marriage... I'm a traditionalist. I'm older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it's always been a man and a woman. I'm thinking, 'I don't quite get it'.
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Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.
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I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.
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I have been pushed to anger by the pervasive moral and ethical minimalism of this White House
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The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
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Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy.
