Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
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For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.
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Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.
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I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
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I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
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God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.
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My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.
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My fans go crazy over jaw clenches. They also love hand veins... they're infatuated with hands in general.
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I remember really loving the CoverGirl ads when I was younger - there was something very cool about how they always put the girls in white. It looked so clean.
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I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
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Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.
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America is a tune. It must be sung together.
