Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like... they'll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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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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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
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I always say, the greatest cost of leading is the cost of paving the way.
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What interests us here is the assimilative power of the Hindu life order due to its legitimation of social rank.
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I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like... they'll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
