Strom Thurmond (James Strom Thurmond Sr.) Quotes
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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Cloudy all day. Showery on mtns. to eastward at noon. Fine thunderstorm evening, with grand display of zigzag intensely vivid & very near with keen cracks and grand trailing rain … Visited Elk ranch. About sixty old & young. Old bulls carry horns in noble style & grand airs.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.
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Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.
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I love all of you men, but you women even more!
