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"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
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"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."
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"I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points."
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"What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction."
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"You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants."
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"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
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"We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing."
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"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."
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"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
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"For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in."
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"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
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"Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam."
Politics
"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."
Acceptance
"If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000."
Employment
"Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?"
Politics
"I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission."
People
"The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970."
History
"Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi."
Politics
"I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered."
Politics
"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."
Peace
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