Andrei Codrescu Quotes
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason.
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Donald Trump is kind of a riverboat gamble. He won the Illinois primary; in this case, we have seen the Republican vote up and the Democratic vote down, so it looks like it's a net benefit.
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I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I've been barefoot most of my life: either flip flops or barefoot on the pool deck. Although you'd think that would make me a good candidate for barefoot running, that doesn't work with me.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
