Robert Dallek Quotes

Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.

Robert Dallek

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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Jill McCorkle

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When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.

Jessica Valenti

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My goal is to be the best quarterback I can be for the Colts, and hope that it's good enough.

Andrew Luck

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Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

Stephanie Coontz

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If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

Spike Jonze

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I just have to play my best game. Not think about anything else - that is the only concern I have and that we should all have.

Stan Wawrinka

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When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

Tom Perez

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I have several Gujarati friends in Mumbai, and I keep eating from their tiffin boxes whenever we meet. I love Gujarati food!

Roop Durgapal

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We're not alt-right, and we're not old-school, National-Review-boring Right - we're aggressive. We're in a meme world - we're in a world where you have to be catchy, punchy.

Mike Cernovich

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At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

Jason Mantzoukas

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I normally ignore the History Channel.

Diablo Cody

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The part of the game that fans will soon miss: the argument between manager and umpire! There was something special about watching a manger and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Doug Harvey

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