Alex Pareene Quotes

The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.

Alex Pareene

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Robin Wasserman is the author of several books, including 'Hacking Harvard,' 'Chasing Yesterday,' 'Seven Deadly Sins,' and her latest, 'Skinned.'

John Joseph Adams

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Too often, real policy improvements get drowned out by political talking points.

Matt Rosendale

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I've been just unsuccessful enough not to have been given a big opportunity too soon.

Jeff Nichols

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I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

Steve Forbert

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Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.

Stephan Pastis

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It's not seeing myself 40 feet tall on a movie screen - it's the work. That's what thrills me.

Sissy Spacek

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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Desmond Tutu

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I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

Drew Barrymore

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The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

Brendan Fehr

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To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Bobby Ghosh

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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.

Alice Morse Earle

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