Rick Perlstein Quotes

That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

Rick Perlstein

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The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

Andrew Davies

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I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

Megan Fox

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GaGa is a digital baby - that's how they communicate. There cant be any layers between the artists and their fans.

Troy Carter

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I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

Ro James

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You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

Rosa Parks

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When I sing a song, I want someone to recognize 'Now that's Dianne singing that song.'

Dianne Reeves

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When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.

Chip Conley

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People don't always want to have females as leaders.

Christina Aguilera

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Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Constance Marie

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Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

Cindy Crawford

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I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.

Brant Daugherty

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I'm trying to have a family and a career.

Pilou Asbaek

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