Winston Groom Quotes
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
Barry McGuire
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
Barry McGuigan
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
Salman Rushdie
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
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The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.
Benjamin Constant
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
Iain Duncan Smith
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Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.
Alexander Lebed
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It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.
Alexandre Desplat
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers
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And that's all I've got to say about that.
Winston Groom