Rachel Kushner Quotes

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

Rachel Kushner

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For me, it's more powerful to hear people sing about God than love in most circumstances because I've been hearing people sing about love for most of my life.

Jim James

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I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

Jill Scott

TimeWorldPlacesSameShoulders

I have apologised to the police.

Andrew Mitchell

Police

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

John O. Brennan

RelationshipGreatWorldSmallWhy

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

Ann Aguirre

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I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.

John Williams

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Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

Steven Ford

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It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

Mary Harris Jones

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Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

Misty Copeland

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Joseph Roux

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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James

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