Cenk Uygur Quotes
The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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I've been blessed. I've had a great life and am continuing to have one.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.
