Cenk Uygur Quotes
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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I will be very involved in Ukraine.
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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Hopefully, ... as we go here in preseason, we'll get in groove with our whole offense.
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Couples have to create an organizational system that makes sense to both of them. If it makes sense to one but not the other, it won't work.
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Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.
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We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.
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Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections
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The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.
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Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good.
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Clean water is such a treasure that we take for granted in America.
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Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.
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I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience.
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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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I didn't want to be a senator, but I considered it anyway.