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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Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.
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The report by a UN commission on Darfur demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.
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So when the world knocks at your front door, clutch the knob and open on up, running forward into its widespread greeting arms with your hands before you, fingertips trembling though they may be.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
