Gene Autry Quotes
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.
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We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
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We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
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I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
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Some people will find any reason to hate. Don’t waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.
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If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.
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The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
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Here comes Santa Claus! Here comes Santa Claus! Right down Santa Claus Lane!
