Raymond Aron Quotes
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
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I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.
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For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
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I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators.
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I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.
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Human nature is weak.
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President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.
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