William Gilmore Simms Quotes
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
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You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now. You are quite the beauty.
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I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.
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You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.
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But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.
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No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
