Ernest Gaines Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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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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I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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The FCC's job is not to put a finger in the wind and decide which way the winds are blowing; it's to look at the facts and make a sober judgment based on what the law is.
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I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.
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I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.
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You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
