Ellen Kushner Quotes
Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
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Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
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I think it's incredibly important to vote because politics is for the people, and we shouldn't leave it just to the parties because then we're in some kind of helpless society where you have no say in anything and in things that are going to affect you. Government was formed to represent the people, but if you don't vote, then you're not being represented.
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People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.
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Everyone is going to die.
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Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?
