Amy Davidson quotes

“For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.”
-- Amy Davidson

Source : "Obama’s Speech: Guns and Government" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. February 12, 2013.

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“Marriage is not only a package of benefits - it's a status.”
-- Amy Davidson

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Amy Davidson on Gay Marriage". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2010.

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“I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many.”
-- Amy Davidson

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com

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“The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.”

“That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”

“There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

“What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”

“Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.”

“On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.”

“It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.”

Source : "Arthur Hiller, Director of 'Love Story,' Dies at 92" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 17, 2016.

“If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.”

“Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.”