Alecko Eskandarian Quotes
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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I always sang at temple growing up. I got a good reaction from Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rosenbaum and the other old ladies.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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It would be childish to think that the Stalin bureaucracy can be removed by means of a Party or Soviet Congress. Normal, constitutional means are no longer available for the removal of the ruling clique ... They can be compelled to hand over power to the Proletarian vanguard only by FORCE.
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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I'm not very glamorous.
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I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
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I love scary movies! My two favorites are pretty neck and neck: 'The Orphanage' and 'The Strangers.'
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Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn't mind; in fact, they encouraged it.
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I'm getting my confidence and momentum, and I'm playing free and playing loose.
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Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
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I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
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Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.
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My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs.
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Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.
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I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.
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My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.
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Ten months of frustration was put behind that shot.
