Ander Crenshaw Quotes
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
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Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.
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When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.
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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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It seems to me I've heard that song before.It's from an old familiar score.I know it well, that melody.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.
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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?
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When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
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Charlottesville is a quiet town with friendly people, good schools, lots of churches, parks, and a bustling, growing community that more or less revolves around one of the country's great public universities. Volunteerism is rampant, and dozens of nonprofits hustle about, solving problems and helping those in need.
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We know a man only after he has been tried. So we know the faith of a Christian only after it has been through the fire of tribulations.
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Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.
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Claude Kirk was probably the most charismatic person I ever met.
