Southern Quotes - Page 18

• I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

  Gillian Welch

  People, Able, Stuff

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• Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

  Lucas Till

  Real, Night, White

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

  Mike Colter

  Roots, Soul, Church

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

  Luke Grimes

  Ohio, Cleveland, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European countries, [Lisbon] is a great place to [connect].

  David Neeleman

  Country, Spain, Want

  Source: skift.com

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• I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Novelists

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

  Warren Beatty

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Warren Beatty's Homage To Howard Hughes Opens In Theaters On Wednesday". "All Things Considered" with Renee Montagne, kvcrnews.org. November 22, 2016.

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• When I took over from my father, he came from the Southern Baptist background, and back 40-50 years ago, there was a lot more of that.I don't believe - maybe it was for a time. But I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm there to encourage them.

  Joel Osteen

  Father, Believe, Heart

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Issues, Islands

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Jesus, Mean, White

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

  Al Seckel

  Weekend, Cities, California

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Memories, People, Singing

  "Actress dreams of Rome — and eating at Sonic". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

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• YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Yankees, Europe, Unions

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Order, Europe

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• It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Redneck, Class, America

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Mushrooms, Interesting

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• Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds withdraw their touch of brightness from the dreary November landscape at the north to whirl through the southern woods and feed on the waxy berries of the mistletoe.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Summer, Bye, Long

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• People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Hero, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  "Mugabe's Hold on Africans". Interview with Peter Biles, news.bbc.co.uk. August 25, 2007.

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• I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

  Morgan Freeman

  Boys, Cold, Reactions

  "Morgan Freeman talks Unleashed!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• I'm not a southern lady, I'm from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.

  Zelda Rubinstein

  People, Pennsylvania, Way

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, "Thank you," it pisses me off. I say, "Yes, ma'am," and, "Yes, sir." Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that.

  Chris Black

  Thinking, Doors, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.

  Chuck Thompson

  Country, Fashion, Stars

  Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

  Robert Pollard

  Running, Writing, Rocks

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