Toni Morrison Quotes

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison

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MoneyBlackThinkMoralityUpset

I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.

Jim Kelly

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'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.

Jill Scott

MeBloodTrueExcitesScares

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

Jeremy Irons

LiveSchoolGuitarHolidaysBag

About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.

Sia

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American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

Rodney Stark

WorkPeopleAmericanHardOutBring

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

Michael Sheen

GodBelieveYouI CanI Believe

How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.

Louis B. Rosenberg

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I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

Liz Phair

MusicTimeWaySameGainUsed

Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

Diane Ackerman

TrustSeeingLivingWithoutClaim

You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.

Christine McVie

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When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Brian Williams

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle

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