Little Rock Quotes

• Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Decision, Presidential, Mob Rule

  Address to the Nation on Desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, delivered 24 September 1957, Washington, D.C.

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• It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

  Malcolm X

  School, Army, Rocks

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

  Courtney Love

  Rocks, Wish, Littles

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• When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Weekend, Rocks

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

  Gwen Ifill

  Rocks, Progress, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And I guess, I guess it's a humanist film. It's not really a spiritual film and it's, you know, it's saying that we're all one tribe of humans and we're on this little rock, floating through the universe and (Amenabar) has these (transitional shots of) POVs where you see humans like ants.

  Rachel Weisz

  Spiritual, Rocks, Ants

  "Rachel Weisz Interview AGORA: The Oscar-Winning Star gets Deep about Religion, Movie Blogs and her Desire to be in J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK Sequel". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 28, 2010.

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• T-shirt and jeans style now is where I'm at. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll T-shirt and jeans.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Rocks, Jeans, Style

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• This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

  Henry Rollins

  Hair, Rocks, Mind

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• I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Education, Time, Teaching

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• What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to go to Europe every year to get experience [and ideas]. I don't go to Europe anymore. I go to Oregon, I go to Washington, I go to Louisiana, I go to Little Rock, I go to Austin, I travel New York City. I don't go to Europe anymore.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  New York, Past, Rocks

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• Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Kings, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

  Charley Pride

  Rocks, Atlanta, Way

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• I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

  Nina Blackwood

  Rocks, Littles, Rock N Roll

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• I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Relationship, Rocks, Years

  Declaration, www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 1998.

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• Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Rocks, Littles, Tiny

  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I...wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rocks, People, Secret

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• We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Moon, Thinking, Rocks

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• Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

  Stephen King

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Brave

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.1175, Simon and Schuster

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• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  Vic Snyder

  School, Opportunity, Rocks

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• I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Night, Rocks, Dresses

  "Model Minute: Alessandra Ambrosio Loves Melissa's Shoes". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.

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• The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.

  Mario Cuomo

  Children, Pain, Struggle

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, School, Mean

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.20, Vintage

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• If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.

  Donatella Versace

  Queens, Rocks, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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