Ari Shapiro Quotes
The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years.

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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Health food makes me sick.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.
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Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.
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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years.