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Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

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I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.

John Darnielle

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Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.

Andy Grammer

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To me, Scorpio was a big bet and a quantum leap in the kind of sophistication of our products. People forget that, apart from the Bolero and the Armada, until the nineties we never made hard-top vehicles.

Anand Mahindra

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Why on Earth would the United States ever want to be more like Europe? Correct me if I'm wrong, but we left, did we not? Not only did we leave that older, lesser world behind, but we left skid-marks along the way with an entire continent eating our proverbial dust.

Steven Crowder

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Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.

Tom Waits

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

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A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course to practice. Sometimes they'd come from the beach at dark to pick me up at the course.

Mike Weir

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When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasn't good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,' but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.

Michael Weatherly

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We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Deborah Norville

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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

Bobby Seale

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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

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