South Quotes - Page 31

• In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

  Robert Zoellick

  Latin, Struggle, Paris

  "Boom Times for Criminal Syndicates" by Michael Klare, www.motherjones.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Art, Memories, Negative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president who tells us what America is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. We want a president who will defend human rights - not just where it is convenient - but wherever freedom is at risk - from Chile to Afghanistan, from Poland to South Africa

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Fighting, America, Rights

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Country, Tradition

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• In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Europe, Sea

  "Gauguin in the South Seas". Book by Bengt Danielsson, 1966.

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• Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.

  Nelson Mandela

  Loyal, Pool, Betray

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• When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Southern, Quality

  "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" (1960)

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• If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

  Brian Roberts

  Sports, Baseball, College

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• West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spiritual, East, West

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• The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

  David Cameron

  Country, Together, Legacy

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• I'm really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P.M. as it does at 10 A.M. One of my favorite products is Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray. I can get a lot of volume with it. I'm from the South - I like big hair.

  Carrie Underwood

  Hair, Curls, Doe

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• Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

  Tom Verlaine

  Rocks, Alive, Sweden

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• Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.

  Tennessee Williams

  America, Doors, Mexico

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

  Coretta Scott King

  Children, Growing Up, White

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Struggle, Rights

  "Noam Chomsky on Love: 'Life's Empty Without It'". Big think Interview, bigthink.com. August 18, 2009.

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• We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

  Dalai Lama

  Perspective, People, West

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• The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

  Bill Gates

  Should Have, Three, Green

  "Bill Gates, time traveler". www.politico.com.

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• If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

  Michel Gondry

  Children, Boston, World

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

  Booker T. Washington

  Character, Rights, Political

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Hiv, Want, Know How

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• South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Country, Giving, Health Workers

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• Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

  Walker Percy

  Beats, Good Writers

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• There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

  Brian Blessed

  Volcanoes, America, People

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• There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Pride, Guarantees That

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Opposites, Practice, Vicious

  "On the Future of Israel and Palestine". Interview with Frank Barat, chomsky.info. June 6, 2008.

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