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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The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.
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A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.
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Ten months of frustration was put behind that shot.
