Ted Cruz Quotes

If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.

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• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  

  Ed Smith
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• I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
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• I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

  

  Samuel Larsen
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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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• The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

  

  Oliver North
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• I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

  

  Carly Patterson
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• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

  

  Gary Ross
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• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

  

  John Kessel
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• Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

  

  Allen Tate
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• The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

  

  Edith Pearlman
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• In representing criminal defendants-especially guilty ones-it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
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• If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.

  

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