Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
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That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
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Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
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The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
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Let deeds match words.
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Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
