Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.
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Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.
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You come out at night;That's when the energy comes.And the dark side's light,And the vampires roam.You strut your rasta wearAnd your suicide poemAnd a cross from a faithThat died before Jesus came.You're building a mystery.
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The eye can best distinguish the forms of objects when it is placed between the shaded and the illuminated parts.
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Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system
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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
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My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
