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Ted Cruz Quotes

Stopping bad things is a significant public service.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 22, 1970

Topics

Service Public Service Bad Things

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

Technology Beach Pressure Transition

I continually took jobs I really wasn't really qualified for.

Jobs Took Really Qualified

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

Funny Humor Culture Yourself Effort

On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye.

Mother Goodbye Body Special She Out

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

Life Hope Fingers Whole Writer

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

Car City Bicycle Fish Like Needs

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Christopher Hitchens

Information Press Rely Journalist

As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the knowledge, and it has served me well as a practising artist.

Cornelia Parker

Girl Knowledge History Art School

Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so strong is my feeling for my subject. On occasion, I have been so moved by the events I have been describing that I have felt like crying.

I Am People Me Strong Feel Feeling

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Winston Churchill

Respect Nation Anything Covet Except

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

America Map Never United Here Only

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

Mom Irish Up Neighborhood Grew Dad

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