Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!'
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Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.
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Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
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Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
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Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
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I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
