Jesmyn Ward Quotes

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

Jesmyn Ward

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In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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I can't say I have a lucky charm, but I do wear a 3/4-zip U.S.A. jacket I wear to every event. I got it from Nike, and it was from the 2012 Olympic Games.

Max Aaron

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We need to secure the border and build the wall; we need to end sanctuary cities, deport criminals, and bring law and order back to this country.

Matt Rosendale

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Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

Stanislav Grof

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This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

Tom T. Hall

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The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

Lowell Thomas

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When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops or a basketball team; that's what we can do.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

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As a child, the conversations that I liked to have with my friends - or with anyone, for that matter - were always about religion.

Christy Turlington

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Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

Peter Woo

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The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

Paul Theroux

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The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country.

Tim Murphy

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