"This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile."

-- Lonnie Bunch

#Tragedy Quotes #Cry Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.”

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“Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.”
“I am too nervous to eat pie.”
“Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.”
“There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.”
“Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.”
“The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.”
“I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.”

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