Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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I received free health care.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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Christian philosophers have found no difficulty in justifying imperialism, war, the capitalist system, the use of torture, the censorship of the press and ecclesiastical tyrannies of every sort, from the tyranny of Rome to the tyrannies of Geneva and New England.
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Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.
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The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach.
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Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
