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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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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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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The word 'change' has been abused so many times.
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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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Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I really enjoy touring period! I had another band called Killing Machine, we went out on tour which was only fifteen shows & we went out in a really old motor home. That had to be the most fun. I didn't have to do radio at nine in the morning everyday. It was me & a bunch of friends. The singer was my tattoo artist. My girlfriend would fly in & we would sleep in a hammock above the bed the band were sleeping in [laughs]. I like that stuff that's really fun, I like the camping experience.
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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.
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A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
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I love all of you men, but you women even more!
