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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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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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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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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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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I just can't read music.
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She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.
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If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there Hollywood weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.
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I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.
