Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
