Edward Bennett Williams Quotes
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
Gary Lineker
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Wadada Leo Smith
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
Talcott Parsons
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I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.
Dan Hill
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I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
Ornette Coleman
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In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
Pat Sajak
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
Ramakrishna
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I am not blind to the shortcomings of the previous government: Before the coup, I supported the June 30 rallies against Morsy....The military takeover aims to uproot the Muslim Brotherhood and its partners, replacing them through brute force with the losers of a democratic ballot
Tawakkol Karman
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You know what so funny, this strike has been going on for a long time. It's lasted longer than the Civil Rights movement, what the hell is this? It's painfully obvious to me white people don't know how to protest. You need like an Al Sharpton, have a dream, go to the mountaintop, do something!
D. L. Hughley
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Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor.
Alexander Pope
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A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.
Cary Grant
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In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania.
Bill Dedman
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Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.
Peter Maurer
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The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.
Nicholas Sparks
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We did not have enough product reach the areas in the timely manner that we wished to occur.
Craig Fugate
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You understand, of course, that I can only get you access.
Edward Bennett Williams
