Strom Thurmond (James Strom Thurmond Sr.) Quotes
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
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There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.
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I don't believe you! You're a liar! … Play it fucking loud!
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.
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I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.
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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
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When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
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I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.
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I've had lots of people say, 'Oh, Franchesca's content is just for white people.' But I try to talk about identity in a way that's accessible to lots of people and is not a pointed finger.
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But they're coming around, the more we tour and interview, the more we find that fans (and critics) understand what we're doing...it's more of an understanding process, particularly with press and radio people.
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~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.
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The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
