Quotes with hand-me-down

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  • Buck Owens But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bill Griffith But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Beau Bridges But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Audre Lorde But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Black Kettle But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bono But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Audre Lorde But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Anthony Trollope Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Horace Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Billy Joel Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late, Ah, but sooner or later it comes down to fate. I might as well be the one.
    Only the Good Die Young (1977)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Benjamin Britten Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bill Kristol Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Bob Rae Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Seven, The Three Questions and the Question of
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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