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		I searched the FM band but there was nothing besides other pious pleaders, and they didn't come in too well. The AM band offered about the same thing, only with worse reception, nothing remotely describable as news, and no music because commercial entertainment as we knew it was no more, and its handmaiden, advertising had gone with it.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James Howard Kunstler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mamie Van Doren 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. K. Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Halsey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nathan Bedford Forrest 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Queen Latifah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kapil Sibal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gail Collins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Leon Russell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walker Percy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Hagee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I searched the FM band but there was nothing besides other pious pleaders, and they didn't come in too well. The AM band offered about the same thing, only with worse reception, nothing remotely describable as news, and no music because commercial entertainment as we knew it was no more, and its handmaiden, advertising had gone with it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James Howard Kunstler