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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 13, 1989

Topics

Fear Community Culture Political Way

I liked roaming around by myself.

Myself Roaming Around Liked

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

Mother King People Democracy Face

I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear that the DJ has just found a mouldy sandwich in the corner of the studio. Nor do I like it when the magic of something you're watching is shattered by an advert for Argos.

Jessica Brown Findlay

Song End Someone Talking DJ Magic

It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.

John Cameron Mitchell

Building Weird You Because Scene

Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.

Work Hard Work People Wait Believe

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

Anna Louise Strong

Feel You Movement Progressive China

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

Jean-Luc Godard

Simplicity Eye Fix Incompetence Mark

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

People Talking President Need Out

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Art I Am Me Doing Say Actor

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.

Me Voice Thinking Language Feel Go

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

Coretta Scott King

Rich Poverty Why Reason Nation Ours

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Booker T. Washington

Life Success Small Things Day Small

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