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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I only entertain very close friends.
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I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.
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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
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I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was nasty to me, and we ended up having a scrap. I can remember thinking that there was going to be some serious bloodshed if we didn't stop, so I made a decision to walk away. It was a difficult thing to do, but the most sensible.
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Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
