Rick Bass Quotes
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
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In the mid-90s The older gods were falling off. EPMD were breaking. Chuck and Flav had taken us as far as they could, and already the new voices were being hijacked by the death cults. Brothers who last week were shouting out Malcolm were flipped into studio gangsters, killing every nigger in sight.
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CH: Have you told many fibs today? M: I lie a lot - it's really useful - but everything I've said today has been the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me... er... Trevor...
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I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.
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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
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The war is over - the rebels are our countrymen again. The war is over, the Rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field.
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I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
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Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.
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I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
