Michael Hastings Quotes

Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.

Michael Hastings

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When folks are in desperate times - say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war - they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.

Jim Starlin

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A lot of times when I'm not at work I like to let my face breath and not put makeup on.

Jessica Szohr

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When I came out when I was 18, and I graduated from high school, and I felt like that was the time to officially say it, I surprised zero people in my family.

Andrew Rannells

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I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.

Meghan Daum

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The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

John Ortberg

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I hope to take my Birthright trip.

Max Aaron

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When you get stuff for free, you have no self-worth.

Stacey Dash

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We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State.

Tom Brokaw

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I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.

Mike Love

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I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

Chirlane McCray

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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Antonia Fraser

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Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.

Anohni

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