Rick Perlstein Quotes
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
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If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.
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Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator Bernie Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.
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Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.
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I've always believed you can't predict love. You can't qualify or quantify it. Can't dissect it. Love hits you like a truck or the flu, coming up from out of nowhere to knock you to your knees. Love burns you up alive.
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As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones
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Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.
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BBJ customers value long-range capability and cabin size, and this product offering enhances both.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
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I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't imagining that I'd be performing music for people, that's for sure.
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The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.
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History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
