Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, 'Learn what is not given to man.' 'What dwells in man' I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.
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It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.
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The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.
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Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.
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I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
