Harvey Gantt Quotes
John Edwards makes us all proud to be Americans, and those of us from North Carolina are even more proud to claim him, for he represents the best that we can offer America at a time when strong, positive leadership is needed.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
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I don't know if a government bailout will rescue America's auto industry, but I do know that if there is a bailout, it better come with a big, bright stop sign and lots of strings attached.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.
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We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.
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I hate small talk! I can't do it.
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Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important.
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When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.
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For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.
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'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
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John Edwards makes us all proud to be Americans, and those of us from North Carolina are even more proud to claim him, for he represents the best that we can offer America at a time when strong, positive leadership is needed.
