John Shelton Reed Quotes
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
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I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
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My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.
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I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
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Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.
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We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
