Cory Booker Quotes
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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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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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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I would have loved to play Atticus in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' There's no music in it, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't want to do it!
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I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas?
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Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.
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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
