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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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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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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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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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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I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
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When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
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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.
