Richard Parks Bland Quotes
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.
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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
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I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!
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The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
