James Butler Hickok (Wild Bill Hickok) Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
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'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'
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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
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I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.
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In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.
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I never, in all my life, took any mean advantage of an enemy.
