Ernest Gaines Quotes
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter. A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.
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Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
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Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you!
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.
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What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.
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When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.
