Ernest Gaines Quotes

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

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• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
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• A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
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• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
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• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

  

  Walter Pater
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  • Moments
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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • War
  • Taken

• The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Corruption
  • Outside
  • Africa

• It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
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• Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Important
  • Change
  • Progress

• I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Dance
  • Gun

• Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).

  

  Pat Robertson
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• Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.

  

  Larry Wall
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• Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Age
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• The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.

  

  Alban Berg
  • Music
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• I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

  

  Jam Master Jay

• The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.

  

  Woody Guthrie
  • People
  • Way
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• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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  • Believe
  • Father

• It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even 'realities'; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a 'solitary elephant.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• She, uh, came out of the closet recently, my niece. Um... She announced to the family that she's a lesbian and... She's seven, did I mention that? And, uh, I don't even know if she knows what a lesbian is, but I support her completely. And, uh... I'll tell you what's heartbreaking. My sister punished her for it. Can you believe that? No pussy for a week. Which to us may not sound like... But when you're seven, you know, a week is a long time.

  

  Sarah Silverman
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• I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Persons