Clarke Peters Quotes
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
Fatty Arbuckle -
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
Maggie Kuhn -
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
Women are the heads of most households in our state and make the most financial decisions for their families.
Larry Hogan -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
Dan Aykroyd -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
Raekwon -
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
J. R. Moehringer -
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
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Dance should mean something to you.
Damian Woetzel -
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
Gary McCord -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
Lars Mikkelsen -
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
Larry McMurtry -
My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
Olivia Newton-John
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African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.
Annalee Newitz -
There appears to be some possibility that the recent trend toward disinflation will continue, primarily because of the potentially large amount of economic slack in the system.
Ben Bernanke -
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
Yoko Ono -
I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.
Bryce Dessner The National -
I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.
Clarke Peters