Charles Lindbergh Quotes
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.
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'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
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On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
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You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.
