Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Jesmyn Ward

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Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

Jesse Ventura

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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

Jessica Lange

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I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.

Andrew Luck

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The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

John Kricfalusi

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From what I hear, everyone who does a Marvel movie gets a three-picture deal. I'll be Sam Jackson's stand-in. I'll do eight pictures for Marvel, and then I'll just do indies. Marvel can pay for my indie career.

Sinqua Walls

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I'm a hedonist.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.

Robert Duvall

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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

Mary Hunter Austin

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The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

David Trimble

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Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it is the organization does.

Chris Fussell

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There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.

Peter Singer

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It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.

Tim Crouch

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