Elmer Kelton Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
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Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.
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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
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The world had known but one perfect man, and no perfect woman whatever.
