Wendell Berry Quotes
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'
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Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, and I hope my family are healthy. And that's all, really.
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It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.
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I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson
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Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.
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If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
