Strom Thurmond (James Strom Thurmond Sr.) Quotes
I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.
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I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
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It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
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'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.
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There were subjects we tackled that had never been even discussed, like I had an abortion. Nobody ever talked about that.
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I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis.
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The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!
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I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.
