Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
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Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.
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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
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It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
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I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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MaxCoin is competing for the crypto buck, if you will. So is Bitcoin, so is Dogecoin. Alt-coins are proving to be formidable because there's a solid community behind it, there's a use for it, and it's got a great market capitalisation. I think that's going to be a winner.
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When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It's like I'm just twiddling my thumbs.
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My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
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This is a very tough and important championship. It's a great accomplishment to have won it.
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When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.
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Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
