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Charlie Pierce Quotes

The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.

Charlie Pierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1953

Topics

Change Time Creative Political Hard

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

Joan Jett

Parents Me World Anything Wanted

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

Sia

Anxiety Trying Security Being There

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

Tom Lantos

Morning Children Suffering Human Two

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

Tom Sizemore

Detroit Kind Violent Neighbourhood

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

Women You Go Afghanistan Out Up

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Martin Sheen

Think Way Through Come Only Just

I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

Martine McCutcheon

Life My Life Want Safe Make Mum

The whole reason I moved to the U.S. to be coached by Alberto Salazar is to be able to improve 1 or 2 per cent. I was sick of coming sixth in the world, seventh in the world, and get close to a medal, but not quite there, half-a-second.

Mo Farah

World Sick Reason Improve Coming

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

Loni Love

Women Black Care Take Care Know Us

Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

Loretta Swit

Me World Feel You Acting Stop

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

Jose Bergamin

Advice Always Just Threat Piece

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

Diane von Furstenberg

Good Friend Best Me Best Friend