Rick Perlstein Quotes

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').

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• The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Today
  • House
  • Night

• I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
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• I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Up
  • Age
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• I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

  

  Patrick Chan
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• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Good
  • Team
  • Football

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hope

• I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Desert

• Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Customers
  • Competitive
  • CEO

• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Together
  • Thoughts
  • Company

• When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Game
  • Want
  • Kind

• I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Nature
  • Strong
  • Girl

• As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Want
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• Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Job
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• We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Guilt

• In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Force

• It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Government
  • Internet
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• The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • More
  • Down

• Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Time
  • Day
  • Football

• President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Support
  • Option
  • Health care

• Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Government
  • Republic
  • Thomas