Bobby Sands Quotes
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I don't like possessions.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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When President Bush goes on television and says certain cultures hate us for our democracy and freedom, he's just wrong. Everywhere I went in the Middle East, everyone told me how much they loved America and Americans; the hatred is directed at American policy.
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If you're going to do it, do it very cautiously. If you're going to ride a bike, ride it the right way. Don't speed. Do it for enjoyment. If you're going to bungee jump, have two cords in case one snaps. I don't ride anything. I just talk trash. That's it.
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As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.
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Sitting around on the couch eating Pringles all day is not going to help anyone.
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I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
