Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

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• When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

  

  Gary Jennings
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• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  

  Gary Oldman
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  • America
  • Democracy

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
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• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
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• We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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• One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
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• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
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• The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
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• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  

  Iris DeMent
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• In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

  

  Barbara Demick
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• Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• All artists are crazy.

  

  Kapil Dev
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  • Artists

• But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

  

  Johann Arndt
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• I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

  

  Brent Scowcroft

• If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
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