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COTRONA Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk t... D. J. COTRONA I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a c... D. J. COTRONA Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person. J. D. GRIFFIN Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to b... D. J. ENRIGHT I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor b... J. D. VANCE Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are s... J. D. HAYWORTH While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development ... J. D. VANCE On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony... J. D. VANCE I love soccer. 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VANCE People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfull... J. D. VANCE In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a br... J. D. VANCE I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. J. D. SOUTHER There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think... J. D. SOUTHER I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th... J. D. VANCE My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose... J. D. VANCE It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ... J. D. VANCE Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse... J D GABRIEL For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou... J. D. VANCE We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere... J. D. VANCE One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio... J. D. VANCE I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev... J. D. VANCE I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so fa... J. D. VANCE For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe... J. D. VANCE Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif... J. D. VANCE Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w... J. D. VANCE Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ... J. D. VANCE If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ... J. D. VANCE There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme... J. D. VANCE