Rachel Maddow Quotes
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	I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.   
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	The purpose of our lives is to be happy.   
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	I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.   
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	I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!   
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	It takes madness to find out madness.   
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	It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.   
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	If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.   
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	Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.   
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	I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.   
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	Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.   
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	Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.   
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	Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.   
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	The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.   
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	I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.   
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	I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.   
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	On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.   
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	In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.   
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	I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.   
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	I feel that as long as you keep running towards your dreams and wish, they'll come true one day. Hard work will not betray ourselves   
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	You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.   
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	I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.   
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	People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.   
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	Is it better to be loved or feared?   
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	I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					