"Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners."

-- John Shelton Reed

#Country Quotes #Smart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out...”
“Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.”
“Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.”

Source : Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors”, p.7, Beacon Press
“Just write what you love and what a movie you'd like to see.”
“Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!”
“The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”

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