Alec Sulkin Quotes
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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There's a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
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It always seems that people who bring nothing to the table take the most from it.
