Ronald Klain Quotes
The idea that people were going to vote after the election and have those votes count, that's a pretty irregular idea, the Republicans and the clerks in counties, they were actually sticking to the law.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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I write about true-life type things.
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You have to go where the good writing is.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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They had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.
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I will declare when I am in the gravel, From the maintenance of gifts, From being numbered, from going to be a martyr In the reckoning of Saint Segerno. From a word when sin may be to me, Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.
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The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.
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The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
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Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)
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Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.
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My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.
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Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
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She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.
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The idea that people were going to vote after the election and have those votes count, that's a pretty irregular idea, the Republicans and the clerks in counties, they were actually sticking to the law.
