John Conyers Quotes
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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I think if you were to talk to women who have run, both successfully and unsuccessfully, nearly all of them would say, "You learn so much." You learn about yourself, what you're capable of doing.... And it doesn't have to all happen when you're young - I mean, one of the most powerful women in American politics is Nancy Pelosi. She had five children. She didn't go into politics until her youngest child was in high school.... That's one of the great things about being a woman in today's world: You have a much longer potential work life than our mothers or our grandmothers did.
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A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.
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Your body is the child of your soul.
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Golf is a humbling sport.
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"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
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Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
