Cenk Uygur Quotes
I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.
