John Sergeant Wise Quotes
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
