- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama and Romney. We need a new format; even if we have the same moderators and candidates, there needs to be a more nuanced way for audiences to connect with and shape presidential debates.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moving to Liverpool was a new world for me. I had been living with my parents in Holland, and all of a sudden I was living in a foreign country on my own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to keep reminding myself that, oh, yes, I wrote that book.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took several trips to New Orleans and met with people who had intimate knowledge of the underbelly of the city in the 1950s. The meetings were both fascinating and terrifying.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.
- Age Group
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- Nov 07, 2020