Caitlin Flanagan Quotes
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
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The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
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I've always had to work to feel reassured, to feel secure, and that's not nice because you don't know where you stand.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
