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.

James Meredith

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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.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Value
  • Books
  • Uncomfortable

• A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Business
  • Lot
  • Accomplished

• It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Amazing
  • New

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • You
  • Eye
  • Look

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Me
  • Feel

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• 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.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Science
  • Lies
  • Claim

• 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.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • World
  • Reason
  • Loved

• But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Sleep
  • Strange
  • Cats

• To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

  

  Randy Travis
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• 'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987

  

  Octavio Paz

• Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Time
  • Future
  • Patience

• Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

  

  Denis Waitley

• If you're a wrestling fan, and you watch it on TV, that's great, but there's nothing quite like being there live.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Great
  • Live
  • Wrestling

• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Church
  • Beginning
  • Leadership

• You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • World

• 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.

  

  James Meredith