Quote by Todd Gitlin
My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the p

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. – Todd Gitlin

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There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. – Todd Gitlin

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Patriotism
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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. – Todd Gitlin

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power
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Politics
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Im not taking any interest in politics. Im not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now. – Jeffrey Archer

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Politics

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. – Lindsey Nelson

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Politics

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether its subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. – Mira Nair

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Politics

Im no expert on American politics. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Politics

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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. – Lord John Russell

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Wisdom

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you dont trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. – W. G. Sebald

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Trust

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think its cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, Id feel honored. – Kesha

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cool

Ive had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor. – Linda Gray

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Humor