Jerry Falwell Quotes

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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• Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  

  Jack Hanna
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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  

  Pat Benatar
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• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
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• I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

  

  Tananarive Due
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• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
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• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
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• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

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• In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

  

  Kate Mara
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• My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
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• We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

  

  J. D. Pardo
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• Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
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• I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
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• What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
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• I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

  

  Freddy Fender

• I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

  

  Jerry Falwell
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