Quotes with white-knuckling

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  • Burt Rutan NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bette Davis Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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  • Barry White No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Toni Morrison No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Andrew Young No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear And he keeps it out of sight.
    The Threepenny Opera prologue
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Calvin Trillin One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bryan White One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Billy Graham Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Caroline Knapp Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Jesse Jackson Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • E. B. White Our idea of a cultured person is a person who doesn't want to live in a community of cultured persons.
    Every day is saturday
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bliss Carman Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Margaret Mead People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Robin Williams People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
    Rolling Stone Interview, 1988
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Barbara Olson Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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