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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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 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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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
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There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
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When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.
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I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.
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Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.
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What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
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There is a reactionary conservative side of classical music, which is not the most exciting side of it. The side that draws me in, there's a real encouragement of risk-taking, going back to masters of that tradition like Beethoven and Bartok and Stravinsky.
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Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
