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" I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name. "
Elizabeth Edwards
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" I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. "
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" I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning. "
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" A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live. "
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" I want to reclaim who I am. "
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" One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. "
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" By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information. "
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" But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. "
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" Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is. "
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" The military is already sexually integrated. "
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" I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. "
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" I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me. "
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" If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that. "
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" I grew up in a Navy family. "
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Up
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" My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them. "
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" I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me. "
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Me
Worried
Going
" Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. "
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You
" You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers. "
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Short
People
Shoes
" What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black. "
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" You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. "
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" There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. "
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" Tabloid news is tabloid news. "
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" Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally. "
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" My father had gone to Vietnam. "
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Had
" Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave. "
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" I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years. "
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Then
School
" The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me? "
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" I want to live. "
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" I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine. "
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" I'm a puzzle doer. "
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" I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves. "
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