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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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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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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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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Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.
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A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.
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The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
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Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.
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If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
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Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.
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The Nisour Square shooting is a signature point in the Iraq war, one that inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad and contributed to the impression that Americans were reckless and unaccountable. The Iraqi government wanted to prosecute the security contractors in Iraq, but the American government refused to allow it.
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Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.
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America is a tune. It must be sung together.
