John Shelton Reed Quotes
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.John Shelton Reed
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. Travers -
On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
Flume -
I smoke, isn't that terrible?
Kate Hudson -
I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
Xavier Dolan -
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
Owen Hart -
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
Kapil Dev -
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
Gary Oldman -
The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
Aaron Rodgers -
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine -
The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
Olga Kurylenko
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos -
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell -
When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
Jack Reed -
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Orson Scott Card -
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso
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Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege at that.
Chelsea Manning -
People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
Nelson Mandela -
People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
Toby McKeehan -
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
Rachel Cusk -
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.
John Shelton Reed