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“I don't think political correctness doesn't make any difference. Once that's in your DNA, you don't pass an ordinance or pass a law or all of the sudden change your DNA.”
Source : "A conversation with NASCAR analyst and former driver Kyle Petty (Part 2)". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. August 2011.
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“If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.”
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“I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian , don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.”
Source : "Fanfare" by Burton Rascoe in "H. L. Mencken", 1920.
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“A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.”
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“Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.”
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“Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.”
Source : Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.19, Harper Collins