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 think people appreciate honesty.
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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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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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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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Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
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Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.
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The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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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.
