Ezra Klein Quotes

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.

Ezra Klein

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Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

Jerry Hall

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

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Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

Jennifer Ellison

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And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

John Chrysostom

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Cirque du Soleil distinguished itself by being a circus with no animals. Before then, circus was partly about showing how man can tame other species.

Robert Lepage

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The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

Jeff Healey

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I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

Michael Chiklis

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I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

Shirley MacLaine

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'Shark Tank''s participatory. There's so many people on Twitter for this show, and they all feel like they're in the tank, making calls on this stuff.

Chris Sacca

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You can't talk about yourself in the third party - that makes you a lunatic!

Anton du Beke

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Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.

Ali Krieger

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I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

Nina Conti

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