J. D. Vance Quotes

For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse.

J. D. Vance

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1984

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The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.

John Ashcroft

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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

Robert M. Pirsig

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I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

Michael Bolton

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As humans, we need to reach out for support.

Amy Purdy

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I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

Ana Beatriz Barros

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If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Stephen Harper

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Every record I make, I want people to feel what I used to feel when I used to crack open a CD and press play.

Statik Selektah

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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Joseph Story

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I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

Constance Marie

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I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

Chuck D

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Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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