South Quotes - Page 11

• If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.

  Robert Pattinson

  New York, Cities, Bored

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• I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

  Horton Foote

  Strong, Oral Tradition, Tradition

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• I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

  Jessica Stroup

  Sleep, Kids, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.

  Ksenia Solo

  Home, Men, Doors

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• I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?

  John Wayne

  Husband, Sleep, Night

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• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  Bai Ling

  Beautiful, Eye, Long

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.

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• In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?

  Isabel Fonseca

  Children, Military, Past

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• There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

  Abby Sunderland

  Ocean, Marine, Numbers

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Two, Giving, Enemy

  "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.

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• I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

  Celestine Sibley

  Moving, Detectives, Kind

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• South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Funny, Movie, Kissing

  Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers introduction (1950)

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• There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

  Ice Cube

  Smart, People, Brilliant

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• I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

  Ice Cube

  Father, House, Los Angeles

  "Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.

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• There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

  Ice Cube

  Beach, Cities, Long

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2006.

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• You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Country, Boys, Cities

  "Going Deep with Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

  Lennie James

  Sports, School, Boys

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

  Donal Logue

  Lonely, Thinking, Sight

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• I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

  Donald Sinden

  Artist, Feet, Idyllic

  "Pieces of me: Donald Sinden", www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

  Anushka Sharma

  India, Hindi

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• We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

  Desmond Tutu

  Climate, Use, Tactics

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Organization, Political

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• If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Drama, Responsibility, Humanity

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• Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Journey, Progress, Together

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• The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.

  C. Vann Woodward

  Philosophy, Two, Blind Spots

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• The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I'm one of them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands. And when I kill an antelope for 'em, their preference is the gut pile.

  Ted Nugent

  Mean, Men, Hands

  "So NRA Board Member Ted Nugent Spews a Little Hate at Texas Inaugural Festivities: What Next, Dog Bites Man?" by Josh Sugarmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2007.

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