Ernest Gaines Quotes
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.Ernest Gaines
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
Gautam Gambhir -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out -
I open the doors for everybody all the time.
Olivia Colman -
Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
Wally Schirra -
My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
Eddie Marsan -
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
Wayne Dyer
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I've always been a Nike person.
Wale -
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry Commoner -
My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
Nathan Fillion -
When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
Victoria Justice -
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Webb
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
Fernando Pessoa -
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.
Alexander Hamilton -
Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.
Khloe Kardashian -
I do not believe on giving amnesty.
Doug Hoffman -
When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
Dinaw Mengestu
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The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
James Altucher -
I don't think there's anybody who's run a campaign like [Donald Trump] successfully in modern history, not that I can think of. And, as a consequence because he didn't have the supports of many of the establishment in his own party, because he ran sort of an improvisational campaign.
Barack Obama -
Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
Willa Cather -
No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.
Mark Zuckerberg -
It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.
Nicholas Sparks -
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Ernest Gaines