"But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome."

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Source : "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.

Brad Carson

#People Quotes #Guy Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.”
“You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.”
“I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!”
“I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.”
“Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.”
“The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.”
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.”
“Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.”

Source : Song: Inner City Blues, Album: What's Going On, 1971

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