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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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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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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I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
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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 embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
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I have a song entitled "Just Ain't My Day" that is a straight country song almost. My vocals are very soulful it's a different kind of record but people's response to it is beyond powerful. Proving that good music is good music regardless of the genre.
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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
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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.
