Rick Perlstein Quotes
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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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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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
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Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
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I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
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I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
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I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.
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Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
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When I present the Charlie Parker book, I do a call and response that works quite well. With the Thelonious Monk book, I play the music and work with kids in a group to create a color wheel and show how the wheel can be mapped on a 12-tone chromatic scale.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
