Leslie Cockburn Quotes
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate who didn't enjoy playing with me. There are always going to be skeptics, but chemistry will definitely not be an issue.
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The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
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Tara: Well, I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's depressing.
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When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
