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Tony Kushner Quotes

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.

Tony Kushner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: July 16, 1956

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Great Depression Great Depression You

The transformation of the D.C. Circuit has been replicated in federal courts around the country. Obama has had two hundred and eighty judges confirmed, which represents about a third of the federal judiciary.

Jeffrey Toobin

Transformation Country Judges Two

A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.

Andy Dunn

Time Moment Conflict Seeing Flaws

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

John Milton

Good God Man Book Self Image

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

Jeffrey Kluger

Experience Cats Intelligence Animal

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

Ameen Rihani

Democracy Political True Us Going

It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.

Tracy Morgan

Work Love People Judge You Know

My idea is not to be big. I just want to be really lean and shredded as I possibly can get - a lot of cardio, light weight, and a lot of my own weight to build up my endurance.

Luke James

Light Endurance Want Build My Own

My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

Louis Begley

Work Safety World Book Year Matter

Biggie was the King Of New York as a rapper. There's a lot more dangerous guys than Biggie Smalls out there, you know what I'm saying? John Gotti was way closer to King Of New York than him.

Jay-Z

New York King Saying You Dangerous

We moved to Wales when I was quite young, but we frequently visited the rest of my family, especially my mother's side.

Joseph Morgan

Family Mother Rest Young Side Moved

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Joni Mitchell

Lie Lost Nation Ability Out Makes

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.

Jon Katz

Love Live Mirror People Writing You