Alfred Kazin Quotes
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
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I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
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I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.
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I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'
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When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
