Rick Perlstein Quotes

Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.

Rick Perlstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WomenTimePeopleSlaveryEnding

I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.

Joe Gilgun

SchoolMeBadActingPunishmentKid

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Maurice Chevalier

LoveLovingCrimeForgetting

I'd like to think that, if I'm unhappy, that I would try and change things so I am happy.

Angourie Rice

ChangeI AmHappyThinkUnhappyTry

Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.

Michael Che

ManStoryBlackTrueNothingOld

Shooting in sequence, I think it intensifies everybody's relationship, the crew, the actors. You have to be very focused, and shooting at night is a challenge because you get tired. I think it requires a special kind of concentration, but it's also exhilarating.

Steve Buscemi

RelationshipChallengeTiredNight

I know that in spite of my varied career accomplishments, the one that will always excite and intrigue is the KKK investigation. It has defined me in ways unimaginable and has always fascinated those who hear its tale.

Ron Stallworth

MeCareerKnowWillAlwaysWho

Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can't live your life based on other people's opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you're not living.

Rumer Willis

LifeChangeLiveYourselfPeople

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

Michelle Bachelet

WomenPlacesDeserveOthersBig

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

Johnny Mercer

ChildWineLaughRosesPlayRun

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

Anthony Horowitz

ChildrenJusticePeopleYouthPrison

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

William Labov

LearningHomeChildrenStrongFirst

I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don't have any kind of public persona - it's all about the fame of the artist. I really don't want to be a star. I just want to have a platform.

Scooter Braun

PastPeopleThinkArtistWantKind

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