South Quotes - Page 16

• I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Strong, Drama, Political

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• Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

  Dennis Hopper

  Stars, Confused, Destiny

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• The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

  Louis Armstrong

  Government, People, Way

  Louis Armstrong (1999). “Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

  Jay R. Ferguson

  Texas, Arkansas, Dallas

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• I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

  Horton Foote

  Strong, Oral Tradition, Tradition

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• I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

  Jessica Stroup

  Sleep, Kids, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?

  John Wayne

  Husband, Sleep, Night

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• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  Bai Ling

  Beautiful, Eye, Long

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.

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• There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

  Ice Cube

  Beach, Cities, Long

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2006.

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• You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Country, Boys, Cities

  "Going Deep with Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

  Donal Logue

  Lonely, Thinking, Sight

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• I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

  Donald Sinden

  Artist, Feet, Idyllic

  "Pieces of me: Donald Sinden", www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Organization, Political

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• If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Drama, Responsibility, Humanity

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• The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.

  C. Vann Woodward

  Philosophy, Two, Blind Spots

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• The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I'm one of them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands. And when I kill an antelope for 'em, their preference is the gut pile.

  Ted Nugent

  Mean, Men, Hands

  "So NRA Board Member Ted Nugent Spews a Little Hate at Texas Inaugural Festivities: What Next, Dog Bites Man?" by Josh Sugarmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2007.

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• If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

  Stephan Pastis

  Fall, Parks, Minutes

  "Cartoonist Stephan Pastis cast aside his career in law to put Pearls on the comics page" by Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2005.

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• My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

  Roger Federer

  Heart, World, Spending

  "Federer's heart is in South Africa". Interview by Xola Potelwa, uk.reuters.com. February 22, 2013.

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• We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.

  August Wilson

  Thinking, Years, Land

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• I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Age, Grew Up, Turbulent Times

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• Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don't trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.

  Simone Elkeles

  Sex, Lying, Love You

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

  Karen Russell

  Florida, Swamps, Alligators

  "Life, Love And Undeath In The 'Lemon Grove'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 8, 2013.

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• I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

  Leonard Susskind

  Fun, Father, Sick

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• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  Frances Mayes

  Italian, Eyebrows, Georgia

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• I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Rick Atkinson

  Home, Iraq, Office

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