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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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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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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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
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As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
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In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
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Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
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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?
