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When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, Then there's no hope for me, Mum.
Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
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I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.
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My father has been a rock for me every since.
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