J. D. Vance Quotes
The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn't even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.
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Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.
