Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
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Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: 'Is there no speed limit in this mad city?''Oh, yes, monsieur,' she answered sweetly over her shoulder, 'but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.'
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Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.
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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
