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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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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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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I don't care what people think about me. I really don't.
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Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
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I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.
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No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.
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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
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I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.
