Jesse Helms Quotes
This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
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This is what I think. You can’t have everything at once. Like the pockets in your clothes, there’s a limit to how much we can have at once. There are times when to put something in your pocket, you have to throw something else away. You have to prioritize those decisions by yourself. There are things that you can’t get back once you’ve thrown them away.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.
