David Sirota famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
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At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?
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However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated / targeted for those shootings — even though most come at the hands of white dudes.
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The reality of politics is, if Trump is the president tonight, every progressive group in America will be able to mobilize in a way tomorrow that they may not necessarily have been able to mobilize yesterday.
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Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
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In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.
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Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.
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To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
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I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.
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I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.
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Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.
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Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.
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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
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