James McBride Quotes
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
Tamsin Egerton -
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian -
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
Queen Latifah -
I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
Nan Hayworth -
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Isaac Barrow -
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
Jack Miller
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
A. N. Wilson -
I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
Nadia Comaneci -
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
Pat Boone -
I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
Gabrielle Union -
In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
Ira Glass -
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
Sam Trammell -
I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
Lara Stone -
What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
Patricia Polacco -
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac -
We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.
Dan Webster -
I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
Rahul Gandhi
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It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam -
I'm finding out what part of punk culture or white indie culture I actually still want to hold onto - What are the values? What are the contributions that I actually like? - and it not coming from a place of desperation or wanting to be embraced or wanting approval, essentially.
Kelela Mizanekristos -
You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.
Jason Calacanis -
It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.
Tyler Florence -
If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have.
Leonard N. Stern -
Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.
James McBride