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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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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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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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!
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You never really know what's inspired you or made you who you are, but I was really lucky that I got to grow up in places like Japan and Hong Kong that are super energetic and have this intensity to them.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
