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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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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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 think I would be more suited to the couture side of the business!
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If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.
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Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
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I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is to keep that hid.
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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
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Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
