Amy Goodman Quotes
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
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I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
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In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.
