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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I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
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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 think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.
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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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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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We're kind of frustrated right now. We're willing to try anything to solve this.
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It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
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Ten months of frustration was put behind that shot.
