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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CAROL: You don’t care for the music?JACQUE: Music! It’s just a gimmick to sell lutes and flutes.
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Even though I was very young, it was traumatizing seeing someone try weird things on their skin all for the sake of being lighter. It's as common as relaxing your hair or maybe even brushing your teeth. I had friends not wanting to do it, but their moms gave them creams to help lighten their skin. That's how accessible it is.
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I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.
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You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.
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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.
