John Dickerson Quotes
The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.
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The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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On that same plantation, there was the field Negro. The field Negroes - those were the masses. There were always more Negroes in the field than there were Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get anything but what was left of the insides of the hog.
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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
