Nina Turner Quotes
It's shameful that the elites basically have one-and-a-half political parties. Working class men and women have zero parties - or they have half a party. That's exactly what progressives are upset about.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
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My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.
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I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
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I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
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The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.
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It's shameful that the elites basically have one-and-a-half political parties. Working class men and women have zero parties - or they have half a party. That's exactly what progressives are upset about.
