Southern Quotes - Page 28

• Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

  Rob Sheffield

  New York, Stars, Inspiration

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• Knockemstiff is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Character, Ohio, Names

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• I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Ohio, Years, Shoes

  "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.

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• Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and worked their way up. But I had seen an underground picture he had made in New York, a black-and-white film. I had done a picture for American International, about a Southern woman bandit, the Ma Barker story, and it was very successful, and I had left to start my own company, and they wanted me to make another one.

  Roger Corman

  Successful, Guy, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.

  Karin Slaughter

  Writing, Wind, Gone

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• Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

  Eleanor Antin

  Beautiful, Good Life, Dark

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• The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

  Alan Bersin

  Term, Security

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You talk about a hateful bunch of people. They have this hate list. Charles Murray. He has been victimized with riots on college campus because he is depicted as a profound hater on the Southern Poverty Law Center website and the left treats that place like a Bible.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, College, Profound

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Amnesty is a disaster, we need strong borders. We have no country if we have no border. In New Hampshire, the biggest complaint is heroin, pouring across the southern border. We have to have strong borders, keep the drugs out. I want a wall. I want to get the drug lords out; then we can at a later date make a determination as to the rest.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Strong, Determination

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I am grateful for the support of those who want to see more women in Congress to better represent our country and provide leadership and solutions to DC. Ron Barber has been asleep at the switch on issues that are extremely important to Southern Arizona, such as fighting for the A-10 and Davis-Monthan. That is why Nancy Pelosi is stepping in to try to save his job in November. Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman that is why I fully intend on replacing Congressman Barber on Election Day.

  Martha McSally

  Country, Jobs, Grateful

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• I am saying the same to Muslims in the global South, telling them: "Just ignore what is done." However, in the Southern countries they are not living in a comfortable society like you and me. They deal with unemployment, corruption, and surviving. For the majority of them, their religion is helping them survive.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Majority, Unemployment

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book, The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It's a crowning achievement of his own storied career.

  Pat Conroy

  Song, Book, Careers

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• FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario.

  Gary Goodyear

  Unique, Community, Library

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• 'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.

  Penn Jillette

  Christian, Self, People

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

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• I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

  Mother Jones

  California, Railroads, Tails

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• I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Grandparent, Painful

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• Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.

  James Green

  Kansas City, Airports, Cities

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• And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

  Dick Gregory

  Inspirational, Dance, War

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• Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

  Strom Thurmond

  Two, Doubt, Style

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• I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

  Margaret Walker

  Song, Keys, Fusion

  Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

  E. O. Wilson

  Baptists, Adherence, Grew

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• The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

  Henry Walter Bates

  People, Giving, Friendly

  Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23

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• In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Novel, Wanted

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Humanity, Perception

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• My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

  Tom Wolfe

  Father, Thinking, Editors

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