Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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I am all for controlling guns.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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Virtue can only flourish among equals.
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We come from a sensory-overload culture, and so we wonder if one guy on drums and one guy dancing around is enough. Adding guys was something we always were curious about. We decided for this run specifically to stay a two-piece. In the future, we definitely could add members.
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A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
