James Meredith Quotes
It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.
Quotes to Explore
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals.
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.
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'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987
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The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
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If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
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It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.
