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I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.

~Ansel Elgort

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Rightwing organizations like Turning Point USA or Leadership Institute spend considerable amounts of money and time to train students with conservative values how to 'fight back.'

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Amount Back Conservative Considerable Fight How Institute Leadership Like Money Organizations Point Spend Students Time Train Turning Turning Point Usa Values

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Trump has benefitted indirectly from a strong belief of evangelicals that the two terms of Barack Obama has led the country to the brink of destruction. Obama was bad enough in their eyes; having the Clintons back in the White House would be the end.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Back Bad Barack Barack Obama Belief Brink Country Destruction End Enough Evangelicals Eyes Having House Indirectly Led Obama Strong Terms Trump Two White White House Would

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Protestants attacked Catholics during the 1844 Nativist riots in Philadelphia. Guess what that was about? Anti-immigrant sentiment. Back then, it was the influx of Irish Catholics into the city. Now, it's Donald Trump clinging to a bygone notion of Protestant ascendancy and nativist sentiments, when mainline Protestantism is on the wane in the U.S.

~Anthea Butler

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The American Catholic Church made statements on racism as far back as the 1940s and '50s. 'Colored' Catholic girls could not live in the dorms at Catholic University - the bishops' university - up into the 1940s.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: American Back Bishops Catholic Catholic Church Church Colored Could Far Girl Live Made Racism Statements University Up 1940S

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When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: About Back Being Chefs Complain Eat Food Friends Good Good Food Kind Like Lot Mafia Many More New New York Perhaps Really Terrible Terrible Thing Than Thing York

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I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.

~Anthony Bourdain

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An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: After Back Basic Big Big Difference Character Difference Employer Enough Kind Knew Life Made Me Mine My Life Patch Person Rough Sort Take Tell Time Up Who

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Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Always Back Best Book Books Choose Come Could Felt First First Time Force Gorilla Me Picture Time Understood

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Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Afterwards Back Bit Come Got Ideas Know Little Little Bit Look Me My Own Oh Own Say Son Stories Where Yes I Can

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