Rick Perlstein Quotes

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Rick Perlstein

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The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.

Maya Hawke

ArtMeWorldInterestingCelebrity

All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.

Steven Wright

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When people come up to me and ask for my autograph and everything... I find it funny that people want my autograph.

Ron Stallworth

FunnyPeopleMeFindWantAsk

I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.

Ruby Dee

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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Mike Tyson

TimeBeginningMeBookEndYou

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Meacham

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As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

Jonathan Coe

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The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

Domhnall Gleeson

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Creativity saved me.

Chris Gethard

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I dyed my own hair this Chocolate Cherry color, and I forget what brand it was, but I remember getting into so much trouble because it stained our bathtub. It was this red-black color, and it was a big mistake.

Chrissy Teigen

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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

Claire Tomalin

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Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

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