William Walker Quotes
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
William Walker
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Adam Duritz
Matt Malley
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
Maggie Smith
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki
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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Gene Tierney
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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
Sylvia Plath
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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.
George William Foote
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
Adam Mansbach
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The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
William Walker
