J. D. Vance Quotes
I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.
