#claim

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard. ↗

— Dick Dale

#go #i #julliard #musician

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

#because #claim #craft #does #done

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.' ↗

— Thomas Frank

#being #city #claim #days #either

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#call #claim #everyone #fame #life

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#family structure #fight #fighting #find #had

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. ↗

— Henry George

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Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material. ↗

— John Linder

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