Ernest Gaines Quotes
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
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I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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He's just really unlikely as a hero - which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.
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The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
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Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.
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When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
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Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if it follow them, it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. With inferior minds the reverse is observable.
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Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.
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You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
