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.
Felix Baumgartner
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
Nadia Comaneci
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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.
Calvin Harris
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
Randall Terry
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
Dan Quayle
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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.
Nancy Willard
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
Kate Winslet
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Iain Sinclair
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
Ja Rule
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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.
T. E. Lawrence
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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.
Garth Brooks
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
Katee Sackhoff
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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.
Aaron Levie
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
Hannah Kearney
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'
Bill Condon
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson
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In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life. While the British have abandoned this approach, we in India seem to be struggling with the old British system of education.
Anand Mahindra
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I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.
Strom Thurmond