Ernest Gaines Quotes
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.
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I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
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Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work - for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well - but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.
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Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
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The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
