C. Vivian Stringer Quotes
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People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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I always try to give my songs as gifts.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
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It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.
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I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
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As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
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One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.
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I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
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Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.
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I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.
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And now the solider toiled upward through an extremely steep ascent over rock outcroppings and ravines. At the top, they saw something few white men had ever seen: the preternaturally flat expanse of the high plains, covered only with short buffalo grass. 'As far as the eye could reach,' wrote Carter, 'not an object of any kind or living thing was in sight. It stretched out before us- one uninterrupted plain, only to be compared with the ocean in its vastness.' The scene was terrifying even for men with experience of the plains. 'This is a terrible country,' railroad worker Arthur Ferguson had written a few years earlier, 'the stillness, wildness, and desolation of which is awful... Not a tree to be seen... and it seemed as if the solitude had been eternal.
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Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.
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We all count on her to do the incredible.
