Ted Bell Quotes

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

Ted Bell

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What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

Jim Hightower

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Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

Joe Eszterhas

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I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Robert Rauschenberg

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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

Matthew McConaughey

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For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Stephen Graham Jones

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My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.

Sigmar Gabriel

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Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.

Trombone Shorty

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Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

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John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

Tony Levin

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Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

Tom Cotton

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I trained really badly during the first 10 years of my sporting career.

Ronaldo

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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

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