Iris DeMent Quotes

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

Iris DeMent

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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.

Karolyn Grimes
- Life
- Age
- Child
Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Think
- Baby
- Now
Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

Beau Willimon
- Money
- Power
- Limits
If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.

Samantha Power
- Way
- Difficult
- Aim
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

Dan Jenkins
- Want
- Golf
- Aging
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

J. G. Ballard
- War
- Father
- Year