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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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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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'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of 'Orthodoxy, True and False' and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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It seems Russians hacked into emails from both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee and then chose to release only the DNC emails. These attacks destabilize and undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and they must be addressed in a serious and proportional way - just as we would for a non-cyberattack.
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As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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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.
