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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.

I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

If you try to give them a scheme, most hitters will rebel.

Karen was always such a lawless rebel: carrying a gun in her purse, flirting with 14-year-old boys. She's the worst. You know that horrible guy Milo Yiannopoulos? She has about as many redeeming qualities as he has.

The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Rebellion' was amazing, there was a lot of anticipation leading up to that event.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new democratic forms for people to have their power. And frankly, in many countries of the world, democracy is in just absolute shambles.

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

I was definitely super rebellious, and my music is that.

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.

One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated.

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.

The process of rebuilding state operations - including the important work of fueling job growth - began the day I took office.

You know the Knicks, they weren't a good team, obviously, when I got here and I just kinda wanted to be a part of rebuilding, establishing the culture here.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!