Cenk Uygur Quotes
The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
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In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.
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Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
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The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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Another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the LORD or remember the might things he had done for Israel.’ (Judges 2:10)
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.
