Harold Ford, Jr. Quotes
I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.
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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
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Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
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All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
