J. D. Vance Quotes
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
