Dee Rees Quotes

Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea. And they're both these country boys, one from rural Tennessee and one from rural Louisiana - and they never went back home.

Dee Rees

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The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

Joel Coen

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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

John Dalberg-Acton

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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Amartya Sen

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A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.

Robert Baden-Powell

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All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.

Ron Johnson

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For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

Marty Meehan

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Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

Michelle Malkin

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The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.

Michael Leunig

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When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.

Don Kardong

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I am tired of people using 'diverse' to mean 'of color.' That's not what that word means. 'Diversity' means people of all different races, all together - like a New York City subway.

Courtney A. Kemp

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From a climbing standpoint, gravity is the adversary. You and your fellow humans are striving together to get to the same place at the same time. And I think that's a really good way for humans to interact.

Conrad Anker

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Governments aren't going to go away; banks aren't going to go away.

Brad Garlinghouse

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