BarbaraNeely (Barbara Neely) Quotes
Nowadays, people wanted to tell you class didn't exist and color didn't matter anymore. Look at Miss America and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But Miss America and the chairman were no more black people than Mother Teresa was white people. Men like Nate and women like her were the people, the folks, the mud from which the rest were made. It was their hands and blood and sweat that had built everything, from the North Carolina governor's mansion to the first stoplight.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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I eat a lot of fish to stay healthy.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
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It doesn't matter to me if someone is a Republican or a Democrat, I'm going to be the governor for all Marylanders.
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Nowadays, people wanted to tell you class didn't exist and color didn't matter anymore. Look at Miss America and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But Miss America and the chairman were no more black people than Mother Teresa was white people. Men like Nate and women like her were the people, the folks, the mud from which the rest were made. It was their hands and blood and sweat that had built everything, from the North Carolina governor's mansion to the first stoplight.
