"For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both."

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Maureen Dowd

#Two Quotes #Century Quotes #Feds Quotes

“While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...”
“I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.”

Source : "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.
“I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.”
“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”
“The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.”
“You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.”
“Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2012). “Bloodline: Five Stories”, p.95, Vintage
“Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.”

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