Walter Wriston Quotes
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second.
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I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
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The germ of every season comes from him
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Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.
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A country does not go bankrupt.
