William R. Ferris Quotes
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
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To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.
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Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.
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It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.
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As a writer, you're always trying to say the best thing. You're always thinking about what's the best thing to say, and what's the hardest way to say it, and what's the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.
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I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.
