Sam Childers Quotes

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

Sam Childers

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

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• I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

  

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

  

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• Golf is played with the arms.

  

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• First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

  

  Hans Frank
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• In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • American
  • America
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• Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.

  

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• There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Words
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• Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
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• What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.

  

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• In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

  

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• In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

  

  Ava DuVernay
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• For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.

  

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• I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
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• Nathaniel Hawthorne says, 'Easy reading is damn hard writing.' I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
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• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
  • Want