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"Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House."
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"The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country."
"We must acknowledge and take responsibility for the conflicts we have helped to create, and act to create real change. That, after all, is the true hallmark of democracy--a commitment to justice, honest self-appraisal, and action--even when it means challenging ourselves and the political institutions we hold most dear."
"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."
"No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted."
"Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind."
"A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand."
"There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody."
"Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though."
"Human beings are by nature political animals."
"The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, "What can I do in this situation?"
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
"I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance."
"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
"To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty."
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