John Buford Quotes
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. Philip Randolph -
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Fairfax Cone -
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport -
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
Harriet Tubman -
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett -
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Imre Kertesz
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
Maggie Stiefvater -
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Vachel Lindsay -
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
Barry Manilow -
It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
Karin Slaughter -
We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
Valerie Bertinelli -
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
J. R. Celski -
'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I have been vain since birth.
Wallace Shawn -
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The time is come when women must do something more than the 'domestic hearth,' which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
Florence Nightingale -
I definitely wasn't trying to disrespect Mo in any way, or the fans, as everybody is talking about. I've been here for 10 years, and to deliberately try to disrespect the fans, I would never try to do that in any way. I'm upset it came across that way.
Allen Iverson
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My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
S.G. Browne -
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
Milton Glaser -
I'm not after anything, I don't want to be part of politics, I don't want to be a part of anything.
Eric Greitens -
I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.
John Buford