Cenk Uygur Quotes
I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
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Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
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My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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The United States while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none, it being a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, so war is better than tribute.
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All my life, I've been a man of peace, working for peace, striving for peace, negotiating for peace. I've been a League of Nations man and a United Nations man and I'm still the same man with the same convictions, the same devotion to peace. I couldn't be other even if I wished. But I'm utterly convinced that the action we have taken is right.
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As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.
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I'm an old-school guy. I don't try to be too flashy.
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
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I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?
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I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.
