Rita Mae Brown Quotes
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.
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There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.
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I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
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I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
