Patrick Henry Quotes
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Quotes to Explore
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Think and grow rich.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
