"As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership."

-- Robert Dallek

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“After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I feel myself pulled back to the same themes, sometimes even the same moments, and I'm not sure that I want that.”
“Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.”
“I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manquÃ©s â€” sucha horrible joke. I canâ€™t imagine a more perfect art form, a moreperfect career than criticism. I canâ€™t imagine anything more valuableto do.”
“[Relationships] never seem to work out, I mean it gets to the point where I have to be extremely cautious. You have to understand, this stardom thing is still new to me, I don't even consider myself "famous". It's 2008: if you have a blog, a mixtape and two pairs of skinny jeans you, too, can be 'famous'.”

Source : Rolling Stone interview, February 13, 2008.
“Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story”
“Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.”
“I am a public library”
“All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”

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