Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
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I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
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Crudely effective, but wildly inefficient.
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Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.
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Clavain felt little in the way of regret; more a sense of quiet relief that they were past the negotiating stage and into the infinitely more honest arena of actual battle.
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There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
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Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits.
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I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
