Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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You don't miss what you never had.
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Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.
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This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.
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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.
