Rick Perlstein Quotes

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

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• To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Child
  • Gift

• My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Lost
  • Journey
  • Memory

• The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Opinion
  • Personal
  • Left

• I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Care
  • Busy
  • Consistent

• I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • World
  • School
  • Strong

• I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Planning

• Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Today
  • Very

• It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Dream
  • Peaceful
  • Bring

• I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • School
  • Religious
  • Years

• I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Movie
  • Recognized
  • Clueless

• There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Stop
  • Problem

• I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Age

• Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • City
  • Child
  • Lived

• We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Political
  • Change

• What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Way
  • Imagination
  • Better

• I deal with spiritual truth which should never be sold and need never be bought. When you are ready it will be given.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • Truth
  • Spiritual

• Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

  

  Emil Cioran

• I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Future
  • House

• Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Trouble
  • Littles

• Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Parents
  • Name

• The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Different
  • Father
  • Conservative

• What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Conservative
  • Considered
  • Liberal