I realized I was gay when I was a teenager and I couldn't imagine what it meant to be a gay adult. I just did the next thing that seemed right, and that led me from activism to media to the kind of media I'm in now. But I like where I've ended up. Rachel Maddow More Quotes by Rachel Maddow More Quotes From Rachel Maddow Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need. Rachel Maddow shortcutscitiesneeds I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch. Rachel Maddow weaknesslightsleep The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb. Rachel Maddow dumbsound I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. Rachel Maddow dont-give-upgiving-upthinking You know just because you don't like the way it sounds when I say it or you don't like my haircut or you don't like that I'm gay, it does not mean that what we say is not true. If you squint a little bit, it is true I do sometimes look like a dude, and I am definitely gay. Rachel Maddow gaysoundmean Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. Rachel Maddow sexually-transmitted-diseasesstdspregnancy I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much. Rachel Maddow too-muchgrain One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think I'll ever have the day-to-day consistency in my performance that something like This American Life has. If I'm not depressed and I'm on and I can focus and I can think through something hard and without interruption and without existential emptiness that comes from depression, that gives me - not mania. But I exalt. I exalt in not being depressed. Rachel Maddow focusgivingthinking [To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff? Rachel Maddow rapturestuffreligion The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud. Rachel Maddow nobelproudpresident I care a lot about what my girlfriend thinks, and my friends, but ultimately it's me in the mirror. I just want to be proud of what I do. Rachel Maddow girlfriendmirrorsthinking When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them. Rachel Maddow partybelievepeople The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. Rachel Maddow recordsgovernmentresponsibility If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. Rachel Maddow maintainingmilitaryamerica I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. Rachel Maddow hopelessphonesmail I'm gonna vote against Donald Trump . Rachel Maddow trumpvote We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive. Rachel Maddow nuclearbiggerpolitics My life is better with every year of living it. Rachel Maddow life-isbirthdayyears I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. Rachel Maddow mediaideasthinking The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that`s an idea that`s been hugely influential in conservative politics since Joseph P. Overton thought it up, making radical ideas seem acceptable by advocating for the unthinkable. Rachel Maddow using-peoplepoliticalideas
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