William Alexander Percy Quotes
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.
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They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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I've heard on the news that they are thinking of putting microchips inside babies so that if they ever get kidnapped that you can track them on Google. But what if technology fails? Well here is my solution: next to the microchip, put a fucking detonator. Listen, if I can't have my baby, nobody can!!!
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.
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You're just mad 'cause I got my dick sucked, and my balls licked.
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To cherish the life of the world.
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When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.
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The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.
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Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
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When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.
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With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.
