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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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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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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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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My mouth ain't no prayer book.
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Of course, there was Hobart. The Inspector was probably insane, but that was all to the good. And he had one particular aspiration which Shadwell knew he might one day need to turn to his own ends. That was, to lead-as Hobart put it-a righteous crusade.
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Officials in the George W. Bush administration later criticized the cruise missile strikes that were ordered by President Bill Clinton in Afghanistan in 1998 as only 'pounding sand.'
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While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
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I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
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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.
