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Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she's rallied tons of people to battles that they don't normally get involved in.

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• I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

  

  Edmund White
  • Thought
  • Special
  • Mission

• I have a love of baseball and a love of music.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Music
  • Love
  • Baseball

• Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Respect
  • Water
  • Quality

• At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Time
  • Effort
  • Faces

• Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Mistake

• I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

  

  Sarah Breedlove
  • Humanity

• I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Good
  • Children
  • May

• The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Men
  • Prophet
  • Nuances

• Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Believe
  • Attention
  • Difference

• The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Family
  • Ideas
  • Notion

• Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • Accounted

• The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Journey
  • Stories
  • Arms

• We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Realize
  • Tragedy
  • Foundation

• Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

  

  Plutarch
  • Intellect
  • Exists
  • Senses

• The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

  

  Plutarch
  • Consideration
  • Human Heart
  • Instances

• A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Think
  • Defines

• McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • She
  • Joy
  • Figure

• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

  

  Marquis De Custine
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Doubt

• Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she's rallied tons of people to battles that they don't normally get involved in.

  

  Ben Wikler
  • Senate
  • Battles
  • Demonstration