"I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others."

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Source : "Labor Unions Turn Against Lincoln", www.realclearpolitics.com. May 11, 2010.

Bill Halter

#Issues Quotes #Conservative Quotes #Progressive Quotes

“There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.”
“Football is the No. 1 sport in America.”
“Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.”
“Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.”

Source : "'Large White House Speaking' by Mark Irwin" reviewed by Alexis Orgera, therumpus.net. April 23, 2014.
“If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.”
“Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.”
“Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.”
“You must take a year off, one of these days, before youâ€™re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then youâ€™ll see the world in a different way.”

Source : Helon Habila (2010). “Oil on Water”, p.181, Penguin UK

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