Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.
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The disappointment of losing is huge.
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I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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To such a memorial as exists here we can only come in a spirit of humility and of gratitude. We can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor. They were moved by a noble conception of human possibilities and human destiny. But we can undertake to find what was their inspiration and seek to make it our guide. By that they will be recompensed.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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For the first twenty years, we in Guinea have concentrated on developing the mentality of our people. Now we are ready to move on to other business.
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My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
