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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How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?
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The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.
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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.
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One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.
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I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealand's economic performance.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
