E. J. Dionne Quotes
I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Athletics is in my blood.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.
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I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.
