David Weigel Quotes
Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger problem than racism, and that racism is used as a cudgel for silencing.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
B. B. King
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
Carlos Fuentes
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
T. Boone Pickens
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
Lalla Ward
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
Sam Brownback
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
Dana Snyder
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
Patrick Chan
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Film has always been where my heart is.
Tatiana Maslany
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
Sadie Jones
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
Kamala Harris
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
Warren Littlefield
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?
Orson Scott Card
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What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?
Helen Keller
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The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.
William Blaikie
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Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.
Amor Towles
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
Abby Wambach
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
Sabrina Carpenter
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Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger problem than racism, and that racism is used as a cudgel for silencing.
David Weigel