Quotes with white-trash

Quotes 161 till 180 of 310.

  • 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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  • Dr. Walter Smith Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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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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  • Theodore Harold White Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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  • George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Theodore Harold White Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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  • William Faulkner Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Beau Willimon Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • William Allen White Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Ben Goldacre Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Brigham Young Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.
    Race Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • E. B. White Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • William Allen White Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Andrew Johnson Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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