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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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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All of my music is honest.
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We now face five years of an unbridled Conservative government that is intent on swingeing cuts, further attacks on society’s most vulnerable and on our NHS. This will severely limit what can be achieved but I am determined to work tirelessly to do what I can to make sure local people are heard in Parliament and protected from the worst of what is to come.
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Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.
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My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.
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I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
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What I stand foris what I stand on.
