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
- People
- Music
- Business
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
- Fans
- Generation
- Late
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams
- High
- Words
- Actions
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
- People
- Men
- History
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

Maggie Smith
- People
- Scary
- Old
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
- World
- Funny
- Thought