Quotes by Kat Timpf - Page 2

Like him or not, you really should respect the fact that Justin Amash makes his political decisions based only on his principles - which is truly refreshing in our hyper-partisan era.
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Justin
Political Decisions
Principles
Refreshing
Decisions
Based
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Yes, dodgeball encourages competitiveness. Yes, the stronger, more athletic kids are going to be more successful at it than the weaker ones, but what game doesn't have winners and losers?
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Stronger
Successful
Game
Encourages
Losers
Weaker
Winners
Yes
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Now, to anyone with even half a brain, a newspaper apologizing because a reporter did some reporting makes about as much sense as a doctor apologizing because he gave someone a diagnosis.
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My favorite tweets are the, 'I used to like and then you said this,' 'I used to like you then you suggested that president Trump was not the savior of all of us.' It's absolutely ridiculous.
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Savior
President Trump
Suggested
Tweets
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The reality is, punishing people by using a sentencing enhancement that was clearly intended to punish people who had been doing something far worse is, by definition, a miscarriage of justice.
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Enhancement
Definition
Intended
Punish
Sentencing
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Straight-news pieces are supposed to be just that: straight news. They are not supposed to be biased, and a longtime practice for ensuring this is to ask all subjects of a story for their comment.
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Biased
Comment
Subjects
Ensuring
Longtime
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Few things are more important to me than the values that we hold dear in this country, and so I believe that there are few things that could be more important to teach our students in the classroom.
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Classroom
Dear
Teach
Believe I Believe Me
Few Things
Believe Me Country
Hold
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Attending Columbia had always been my dream, but the truth is, my decision not to go wound up opening the door to things that would have, in the past, seemed too big to even be worth dreaming about.
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Attending
Columbia
Decision
Opening
Truth Is
Dreaming
Door
In The Past
Seemed
Wound
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See, one of the greatest things about living in the United States is that we have the absolute freedom to say whatever we want about our government, while being protected against government retaliation.
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Absolute Freedom
Protected
Retaliation
Absolute
Greatest Things
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Too many people don't look at things objectively and try to see the facts; they instead look at them through their partisan lenses and try to figure out how to twist or spin them to fit their own 'side.'
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Lenses
Objectively
Partisan
Spin
Too Many People
Twist
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The bottom line is: It is fine to have issues with President Trump; I've had them myself. The thing is, though, the best way to argue against the things that you disagree with is never to use abusive tactics.
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Best Way
Bottom Line
Disagree
Tactics
Best Myself Way
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Far too many people believe that they are owed some kind of 'safe space' from opposing ideas, and the fact is, that just isn't true - and we shouldn't allow people to say that it is true without correcting them.
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Correcting
Opposing
Owed
Too Many People
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People actually have the nerve to ask me if I want to go to a haunted house. Why would I want to go to a place where I have to pay my money for creepy strangers to be able to harass me without legal repercussions?
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Creepy
Repercussions
Harass
Haunted
Nerve
Strangers
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It's always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion - if not for compassion's sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they'll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.
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Compassion
Disagree
Sake
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Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be 'offensive' with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared 'racist' or 'sexist' every day, I'm certainly glad that we do have this protection.
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First Amendment
Glad
Offensive
Protection
Day New Every Day
Amendment
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Hillary Clinton had the backing of the entire DNC during her 2016 run, and yet, after she lost, all she could do was whine incessantly about how many people had wronged her throughout the process and made it so unfair.
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Incessantly
Unfair
Wronged
Backing
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
How Many People
Whine
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Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.
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Allegiance
Communicate
Mistake
Peaceful
Pledge
Protest
Speech
Abstain
Deciding
Make No Mistake
Therefore
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Trump and his supporters often lambast news sources such as CNN as being the 'fake-news media' whose only goal is to take him down, and they're really doing themselves no favors when they say things that seem to support that.
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Cnn
Favors
Media
News
News Media
Support
Trump
Seem
Sources
They Say
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For years, fiscally conservative advocacy groups were giving then-Republican representative Justin Amash awards, praise, and donations. Now that he's an independent, however, many of those same groups are snubbing him entirely.
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Advocacy
Awards
Justin
Praise
Donations
Entirely
Fiscally
Fiscally Conservative
Representative
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The bottom line is this: It is not, in a country that was founded on the values of individual liberty and personal responsibility, the job of the government (read: completely uninvolved taxpayers) to pay for someone else's mistake.
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Government
Bottom
Bottom Line
Individual
Individual Liberty
Liberty
Mistake
Pay
Personal Responsibility
Responsibility
Taxpayers
Job
Government Responsibility Country
Read
Line
Personal
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There are cruel, terrible things that happen in this world that are even more traumatizing than the existence of Jeff Sessions. Yes, it can be painful to read about them - but we can never hope to change what we cannot first recognize.
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Change Hope World
Cruel
Jeff
We Cannot
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My first job ever real job in the field was as an airborne traffic reporter and producer in Los Angeles, but I was laid off pretty quickly - which was totally fair, because I'm terrible with directions, and that's kind of the whole job.
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Traffic
Directions
Reporter
First Job
Laid
Producer
Real Job
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All too often, we see politicians on both sides desperately twisting themselves into partisan-hack pretzels, for the sole purpose of defending their own 'team' or attacking the other, without any thought to principles or values whatsoever.
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Both Sides
Sides
Sole
Defending
Desperately
Sole Purpose
Twisting
Whatsoever
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I myself have appeared on countless panels alongside people with whom I've disagreed, at times even vehemently - and yet, the thought of closing out those segments by grabbing their notes and ripping them up has never even crossed my mind.
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Closing
Grabbing
Notes
Myself Mind People
Alongside
Appeared
Countless
Crossed
Ripping
Segments
Vehemently
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College is supposed to be a place that prepares its students for the real world. That's the entire purpose of attending! Learning how to be an engaged citizen is something that should be encouraged in this kind of environment, not restricted.
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Attending
Engaged
Real World
Citizen
Encouraged
Prepares
Restricted
The Real World
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No one, and I mean no one, gets personally offended by someone saying a food that they like is just okay - as if I had just attacked one of their character traits - unless 'character trait' is exactly what they consider liking that food to be.
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Character
Offended
Attacked
Consider
Trait
Exactly
Exactly What
Gets
Liking
Personally
Saying
Unless
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All too often, I will see people on the left slam Trump for the way he treats or talks about other people. Then those same individuals - sometimes even in the same breath - will go on to say even worse things about the people who voted for him.
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Left
Slam
Treats
Trump
People Will Way
People Sometimes Way
Voted
Breath
Even Worse
Individuals
Talks
Worse
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Throughout his career, Bloomberg has repeatedly shown blatant disrespect for individual rights and civil liberties. The first thing that comes to mind is probably the way he tried to micromanage New Yorkers' food choices during his time as mayor.
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Civil Liberties
Disrespect
Individual Rights
Blatant
First Thing
Liberties
Mayor
Repeatedly
Shown
The First Thing
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Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented by some idiotic, anti-free-speech student or professor, people will ask me why I wasted my time writing about it.
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Columns
Idiotic
My Time
Student
Wasted
Pc
Presented
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Review
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Getting the police involved or levying an absurd punishment just because that's what some zero-tolerance rule mandates - even though it's clear that the student in question wasn't a danger - doesn't make anyone safer. Worse, it can actually cause harm.
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Absurd
Danger
Harm
Mandates
Punishment
Safer
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See, locking people up who present no real danger to society isn't just unfair to those people and those who love them. It is, but it's also unfair to the people who pay to keep them there: the taxpayers. Let me be clear: Locking someone up is not free.
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Danger
Taxpayers
Unfair
Locking
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I know it can be difficult to try and achieve your dreams when you don't have the same advantages as some other people may have, but this is a country full of opportunity where amazing things can happen, if you are willing to hustle and be smart about it.
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Opportunity
Amazing
Achieve
Amazing Things
Difficult
Hustle
Smart
Willing
Your Dreams
Advantages
Full
Happen
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I myself have been the victim of some absolutely horrific speech throughout the years; I know how bad it can make you feel - and yet, I still believe firmly that no words directed at me could ever feel worse than having to worry about losing my right to use my own.
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Horrific
Losing
Worry
Myself Believe Me
Directed
Firmly
No Words
Throughout
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The truth is, one of the best things about being 15 years old is that things like candy are still exciting. Once you get older, once you've been knocked down enough by this cruel thing we call life, that just won't be the case anymore. Eventually, you'll become jaded.
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Don't like flag-burning? Fine. Hate flag-burning? Me too! The thing is, though, hating something doesn't always mean that the answer is to call on government powers to ban it - and, in fact, I'd say that that is rarely the best solution, especially when it comes to speech.
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Ban
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Powers
Solution
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Personally, I chose my own undergraduate institution in large part because the scholarship options made it affordable for me to attend. Make no mistake: The financial feasibility of each school's cost was a major part of making my decision, as it was for almost everyone I knew.
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Affordable
Scholarship
Undergraduate
Almost Everyone
Attend
Chose
Institution
Large Part
Major Part
Options
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It's true: Whenever I see a government rule that could clearly be used to punish people for doing innocuous things, it is never enough for some government official to just assure me that it won't be used that way. Those assurances, after all, aren't binding; they're lip service.
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Government
Binding
Enough
Lip Service
Used
Government Me People
After
Assure
True
Doing
Clearly
Could
Official
Punish
Rule
Service
Whenever
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Football is, honestly, so objectively bad that I have always been convinced that the only reason it is so 'popular' is some kind of mass conspiracy. Everyone who 'likes' it is just pretending to like it because they see other people 'liking' it, and now we are all forced to endure it.
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Conspiracy
Endure
Always Football People
Forced
Objectively
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Many people have made sacrifices to continue their education, or to allow their children to continue theirs. Others have made sacrifices by taking a path that didn't include continuing, because they could not afford to do so. None of these are things that could ever be replaced with cash.
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Replaced
Include
Sacrifices
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I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia. I can taste, and always have tasted, words. I remember when I was a kid and learning to read I mentioned to my mom that certain words I was learning tasted certain ways, thinking everyone was like that, and didn't understand why she didn't get what I was saying.
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Remember When
Tasted
Mentioned
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I am, quite clearly, no fan of PETA or its way of thinking - but that doesn't mean that I want the group to be silenced. Instead, I have simply done what we all are supposed to have the right to do in this country: to use my own speech to counter what I disagreed with, rather than to move to silence it.
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Silence
Counter
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Let's all be honest here for a second, okay - bacon? Not even that good. Now, I'm not saying that it's bad. I like bacon-wrapped dates, and I've also been known to enjoy a BLT a couple of times a year. What I'm saying is, bacon is fine, but it is objectively not so good that we need bacon-scented sunscreen.
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Fine
Okay
Sunscreen
Bacon
Dates
Objectively
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The flag is a symbol of our freedom, and burning it absolutely is one of the least patriotic things that a person could possibly do. I say 'one of the least' because I can think of a few things that would actually be less so - and, as a matter of fact, I think that banning flag-burning would absolutely be on that list.
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Burning
Patriotic
Banning
Few Things
Flag
Symbol
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There are some professions, of course, where licensing is important. For example: If there's someone out there claiming to be a top heart surgeon whose only qualifications are having played Operation as a child, then I'm going to have a problem with that. I'm definitely going to say that jail time is appropriate in this instance.
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Appropriate
Instance
Jail
Licensing
Qualifications
Claiming
For Example
Operation
Professions
Surgeon
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To be an Instagram model, you absolutely cannot just post pictures of yourself in a bikini for the sake of people seeing you in a bikini - even if that is exactly what you are doing. No, you need to caption these photos with an inspirational quote so that people will know that you are not just a butt, you're a gosh dang philosopher.
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Inspirational
Caption
Instagram
Philosopher
Sake
Seeing
Yourself
Need
Yourself People Will
Absolutely
Bikini
Doing
Butt
Cannot
Even
Exactly
Exactly What
Model
Gosh
Pictures
Post
Quote
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Make no mistake... 'South Park' is brutal. It takes subjects that aren't supposed to be touched at all and handles them roughly. It's true that it's crude and rude and disgusting, even in its treatment of subjects that are supposed to be solemn - spoken of only in polite whispers and polished platitudes if they're ever spoken of at all.
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Brutal
Crude
Platitudes
Polished
Rude
Solemn
Subjects
Touched
Treatment
Make No Mistake
Park
Roughly
South Park
Spoken
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I was in the journalism program in college and had some internships in print journalism during the summers. The plan was to go to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to learn broadcasting after I graduated. I was enrolled and everything, but ultimately decided that I could never afford to pay back the loan I'd have to take out.
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Broadcasting
Columbia
Columbia University
Graduate School
Journalism
Loan
Print
Enrolled
Graduate
In Print
Summers
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