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" I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness. "
Cory Booker
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" The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. "
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" I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform. "
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" If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. "
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" My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig. "
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" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "
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" My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today. "
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" What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value. "
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" In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate. "
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America
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" In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them. "
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Choice
You
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" We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. "
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Washington
Nothing
Done
" In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence. "
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History
" I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way. "
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" The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community. "
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People
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" No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills. "
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Rules
Color
Job
" We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love. "
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Tolerant
Love
Nation
" I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. "
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Man
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Brick
" In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win. "
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Problem
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Game
" I debated between law school and divinity. "
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Law
Divinity
School
" People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world. "
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Miss
People
Spirit
" Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others. "
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Best
Up
Stand Up
" Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values. "
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Way
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Vegan
" 'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss. "
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Stage
American
Best
" The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist. "
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Race
Great
Start
" Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body. "
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Body
" As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation. "
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I Can
Leader
Government
" You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome. "
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Convenience
You
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" As a vegetarian eating a plateful of eggs, I found myself in this weird place where I didn't want to think about where those eggs came from. I didn't want to think about the treatment of the animals who produced those eggs. When I find myself trying not to think about things, it seems to me that I'm practicing avoidance. "
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Weird
Animals
Me
" The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that. "
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Lose
Want
Mentality
" We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city. "
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Know
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" There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost. "
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Law
Small
School