Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.
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By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.
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I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
