Graydon Carter Quotes

The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

Graydon Carter

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Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Jim Bridenstine

RichFairnessTaxEconomySuffer

I'm quite gregarious. But when it comes to relationships, I mean, I'm no good at it. I suck at it. And people say I'm way too hard on myself, but I always feel like somebody else is going to say it if I don't. Why not just beat them to the punch so it doesn't hurt so much?

John Grant

GoodMyselfPeopleHurtFeelSay

You should have died when I killed you.

John le Carre

YouShouldDied

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

Amanda Bynes

GoodPeopleMeWorldLaughWant

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

Tracy Morgan

Not PerfectPerfectStrive

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

Ron DeSantis

TimeAccountabilityWashingtonOffice

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

Mary Szybist

ExperienceFindTurnRatherThan

To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren't fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist and racist presumptions... Well, there just aren't many comfortable ways to take that. And in the face of discomfort comes the mask of defence.

Michaela Coel

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I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

Debra Granik

HopeLookingSomeoneSeriouslyHard

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

David Sze

BestPerspectiveFocusedBubbleUs

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

Brian Schatz

DecisionsRunRaceEveryoneOwn

In my career, I am so so happy and grateful for everything I've gotten to do. And yet, I wish I had started off earlier so I could, I don't know... I certainly have not not gotten work because of my age, but I'm just gonna pray and hope that the roles will still keep coming as I get older.

Allison Janney

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