John Edwards Quotes

I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

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• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Moments
  • Yourself
  • Ups And Downs

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Chance
  • Living
  • Nobody

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Hate
  • Decision
  • Confused

• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Race
  • Will
  • Generosity

• First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Chance
  • First
  • Achievement

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hair
  • Cure
  • Gray

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Bad
  • Same
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• I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
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  • Work

• So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

  

  Vic Morrow
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  • Looks
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• We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.

  

  Laura Carmichael
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  • Work
  • Coffee

• The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

  

  Lori Petty
  • Up
  • College

• I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Sleep
  • Smart

• No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Life
  • Political
  • Past

• I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

  

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