"My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from."

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Source : "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

David Alan Grier

#Growing Up Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #America Quotes

“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work”
“I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together pretend that we knew what "first-person perspective" (or "quale" or "consciousness") means, so that we can keep our traditional debates running on forever.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.”
“Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.”

Source : Jeff Abbott (2002). “Black Jack Point”, Signet
“there was a time when these weren't memories.”
“To laugh is to live profoundly.”
“Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.”
“I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. Theyre in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!”

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