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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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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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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I'm a girl, so I didn't really know about 'G.I. Joe' as a kid. I didn't watch the show.
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If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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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.
