Francis J. Grimke Quotes
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I love creative people.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
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We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.
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To be honest, the reason I have my cats is to force myself to think about something other than myself.
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I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.
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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
