Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.
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I'm a working-class person, working with class.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
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I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.
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He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.
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In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.
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It's not fair that prices have risen so quickly -- so rapidly -- because the product that is for sale was purchased (before the hurricane) at prices that were much lower by the companies. So there's some profiteering going on here.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.
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George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.
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I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.
