Edmund Ruffin Quotes
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
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I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said ,if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke.It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.
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Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families.
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Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?
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I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.
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Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.
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The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice
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Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?
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Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it the most.
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It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.
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The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
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When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
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I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After all, capital is the accumulated savings of mankind. And banks are great masters in destroying enormous amounts of capital with great regularity.
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Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
