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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Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.
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Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
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You never want to go through a coaching change mid-cycle.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
