Rachel Maddow Quotes
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.
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The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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It's strange. No one ever really talked to me about my voice. People started writing about it, and I was like, 'What?' I'm really about my lyrics, but more people were talking about my voice. It's cool, but at first I got upset because I wanted people to focus on the content.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
