John Sutter Quotes
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?
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'Enter, my friend, enter. How goes your trade?''In all candor, not too well,' said Cugel. 'I am both perplexed and disappointed, for my talismans are not obviously useless.'
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There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.
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Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows knee high
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I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.
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The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
