Jesmyn Ward Quotes

Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.

Jesmyn Ward

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There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.

Jimmy Iovine

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I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

Jewel

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The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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I still like George W. Bush. A lot.

Andrew Breitbart

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I don't actually go to a lot of games because I think football on TV is better. Even though I'm pretty busy, I watch 90 percent of Ohio State's games.

John Legend

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They taught me different was wrong.

Ani DiFranco

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I didn't feel that I really fit in anywhere. So when I was young I always had to prove myself through my sporting ability.

Sonny Bill Williams

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I know everybody says that their bride was the 'most beautiful in the world.' They're wrong. I win.

Steven Crowder

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I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.

Tory Lanez

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My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

Rob Lowe

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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Martin Van Buren

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Douglas Horton

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