"Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be."

-- Joe Manchin

#Proud Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.”
“To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.”
“Most of the time, people are not actually concerned with prostitution and sex work. They're concerned about seeing people who they think are prostitutes and sex workers in their community. Sometimes this just comes down to profiling, the feeling of "I don't want someone who looks like that in my neighborhood." We need communities and neighbors to regard sex workers as part of the community and fellow neighbors. But that's really difficult. There's certainly nothing supporting that.”
“There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.”
“But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.”
“I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.”
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
“There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the one enduring genre from Homer to Ashbery - no other literary form has lasted as long. The novel is only two or three hundred years old... And yes, it's mainstream if we look back, we often turn to poetry to encapsulate what was going on in a particular moment because it crystalizes the experience in a very condensed and meaningful way.”

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