Cory Booker Quotes

I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values.

Cory Booker

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LiveMeValuesI CanWantWay

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

Jeremy Denk

CrazyKindStrangeKidDifferent

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

PhilosophyYouNothingPersonalSure

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

Jeff Lindsay

SocietySometimesNothingMoreDogs

It's true - my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don't even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn't tolerate that, as she shouldn't from a 14-year-old.

Michael Che

MotherLiveAngerMeMomSister

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

John Wesley Shipp

AudienceGoneBooksComicMainstream

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

John Tyler

FriendshipGoodGovernmentWillFar

When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head.

Shirley Temple

WorkLoveMotherHappySayingName

I want a little black girl to pick up my book one day and see herself as the star. I want her to know that she's beautiful, and she matters, and she can have a crazy, magical adventure even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she can never be Hermione Granger.

Tomi Adeyemi

GirlBeautifulDayAdventureCrazy

I'm not a big football person at all.

Robert De Niro

FootballPersonBig

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

Mickey Drexler

TeamSomeoneYouBuildLeadGot

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.

Mike Birbiglia

CollegeWashingtonUpMassachusetts

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

Michael Sandel

LifeEqualityPeopleDemocracyUp

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