Ernest Gaines Quotes
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
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For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.
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How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
