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's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
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Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed.
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I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.
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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.
