Marc Veasey Quotes
The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and low-income Americans to unfair, punitive barriers preventing them from exercising their most basic right as American citizens.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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The thing that struck me most was the way he stuck to the motif in the 'Flag' and 'Target' paintings by Jasper Johns .. ..the idea of stripes – the rhythm and the interval – the idea of repetition. I began to think a lot about repetition. quote, 1960's
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It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
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Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'
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The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
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The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and low-income Americans to unfair, punitive barriers preventing them from exercising their most basic right as American citizens.
