Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new.
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Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.
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My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
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My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
