Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods.
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I believed I was invincible.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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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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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I think I'm someone you would really break down easily, so I have to work on that.
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Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.
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About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
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Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
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It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods.
