Charles Augustus Briggs Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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And with the Afghan war ending, this needs to be the year Congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainee transfers and we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, because we counter terrorism not just through intelligence and military action but by remaining true to our constitutional ideals and setting an example for the rest of the world.
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
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I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.
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...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.
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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
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I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
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We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With 'Roots,' I was just as proud as anybody else that people of color were getting their stories told.
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History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.
