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.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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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.
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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?'
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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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.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
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You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
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Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
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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.
