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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.
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I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
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The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.
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[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.
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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
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Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
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Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?
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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.
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
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I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
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When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
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The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
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...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.
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Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.
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My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
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My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie if you're wrong, correct do not misrepresent and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.
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I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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The Tea Party we were told is only about economics not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.
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I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
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