Willie Herenton Quotes

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

Willie Herenton

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I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.

Melvin Van Peebles

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I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

Melanie Lynskey

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I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

Matthew Goode

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I didn't really have many friends as a child.

Trudie Styler

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I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and bad things were ugly. But that's not how the world works.

Trevor Paglen

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Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

Ron Williams

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South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.

Jann Klose

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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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If I were wearing jeans, I'd be wearing the uniform of a cartoonist.

Don Wright

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It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.

Craig Ferguson

LoveCarYouKnowKindEverything

In the Marvel universe, vibranium has always been this material that absorbs kinetic energy. And any tiny bit of physics knowledge will tell you that that's really non-Newtonian. You can't just absorb energy, you've gotta change it into something else.

Brian Stelfreeze

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You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

Apollonius of Tyana

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