Nathan Bedford Forrest Quotes
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
Quotes to Explore
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I try to stay focused.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
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The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
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My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
