Andrei Codrescu Quotes

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.

Andrei Codrescu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 20, 1946

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I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.

John Cena

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I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

John O. Brennan

TimeBalanceThinkUnderstandingWay

One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it's examined in the lecture theatre.

Robert Rinder

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At 10 A.M. on the Friday after the election in 2010, David Cameron's team met in his room at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel. Cameron was clear that, unable to form a majority government, they had to begin talks with the Lib Dems about forming a coalition. But in a rare example of strategic discord, George Osborne disagreed.

Michael Ashcroft

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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

Stewart Udall

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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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I watched my parents battle, work night shift, work two jobs. That's toughness. That's toughness... That's something; it all carries over from your parents, and I was fortunate to have both parents in my life.

Mo Williams

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I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.

Louis Theroux

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I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

Doug Stanton

PeopleFaceOvercomeHumanEither

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

MyselfPeopleTryingExploringOut

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

Peter Diamandis

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If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

Nick Rhodes

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