James F. Byrnes Quotes

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

James F. Byrnes

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• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
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• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
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• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
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• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
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• For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Picture
  • Vote

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Love
  • Love Yourself

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
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• And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Possession
  • Signed
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• If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Something
  • Before
  • Shy

• Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • War
  • Future

• I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Opportunity
  • Wife
  • Celebrity

• My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

  

  Earl Thomas
  • Life
  • Greatness
  • Bigs

• It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • Important
  • History

• There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Pleasure
  • Result

• It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Music
  • Father
  • Parents

• Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

  

  James F. Byrnes
  • People
  • World
  • Important