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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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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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People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
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I want to reconnect to my animal life.
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It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
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I think what we find, especially with the kids that grew up with 'Clone Wars,' when they're of the age where they're like, 'I want to revisit that stuff,' who knows what format they're going to watch it on.
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There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
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I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.
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The Jew bows before no man only God
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
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I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.
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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.
