Bret Harte Quotes
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.Bret Harte
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
J. B. Pritzker -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
D. H. Lawrence -
To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama -
Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
Octavia Spencer
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
M. Stanton Evans -
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki -
I like doing my own stunts.
Ram Charan -
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
Patricia Richardson -
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman -
I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
Damian Lewis -
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
Ferran Adria -
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
Orhan Pamuk -
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
Ian Mckellen
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When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.
R. C. Sproul -
The enemy of fear is creativity.
Seth Godin -
In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.
Linus Torvalds -
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
Desmond Tutu -
Senator, I'm happy to continue the discussion, but I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly.
Condoleezza Rice -
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
Bret Harte