Taylor Branch Quotes

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Taylor Branch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1947

Topics

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The studio should not have released this film.

Joel Siegel

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I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

Maxwell Caulfield

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You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

Mel Tillis

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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

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The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

Meriwether Lewis

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The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

Steve Earle

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First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Mikheil Saakashvili

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I was very well received by Dortmund, by the whole club. I felt a lot of love; a footballer is stronger when he has confidence.

Michy Batshuayi

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It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Josef Albers

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I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction.

Johnny Flynn

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I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.

Denis McDonough

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A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

Coretta Scott King

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