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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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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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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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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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.