Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I look formidable.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
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Primarily I have a simple desire to shine my ass — to show off a bit in print.
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The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I was really disappointed coming off that Ashes series.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
