Ernest Gaines Quotes
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
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Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
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I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.
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Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
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I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
