Cenk Uygur Quotes
I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Bullying is a national epidemic.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
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'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
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I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
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When it comes to special use of forts and military bases and public parks, where they're getting terms nobody else gets, that has to stop.
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Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
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The world is still sexist.
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I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.
