"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."

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Robert Charles Wilson

#Redneck Quotes #Class Quotes #America Quotes

“You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.”
“Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.”
“I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.”
“I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.”
“I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.”
“Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.”
“There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.”

Source : "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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