Bill Vaughan Quotes
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Quotes to Explore
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
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Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
