Wendell Berry Quotes
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
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By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
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Michael Jackson did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would get bored. The biggest thing that Michael's done to children is befriending the ones that are in need and then abandoning them
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I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.
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'Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been trampled by a horse in his youth and couldn't enlist. My mother was studying to be a nurse and, when war broke out, joined the Women's Army Corps without even telling her parents.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.
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This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
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What I stand foris what I stand on.
