"There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other."

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Source : "The Violence We Live With" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2013.

Charlie Pierce

#Hands Quotes #Law Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.”
“Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.”
“We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.”
“I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.”

Source : Robert Lynd (1969). The Peal of Bells. p.26,
“The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.”

Source : "Olivier Dahan: 'I don't read the Grace of Monaco critics'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.
“Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”

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