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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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"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."
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"Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing."
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"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."
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"If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."
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"If you can accept losing, you can't win."
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"I never think about losing."
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"I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else."
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"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."
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"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
"Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi."
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
"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."
Peace
"Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?"
Politics
"Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout."
Money
"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 politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
Decision-Making
"Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam."
Politics
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